by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Dec 4, 2018 | Conversations on Spirituality
Al-Fatiha – The Opening Door, the Opening Chapter, the Door to All That Is, to All Mysteries and Subtleties (With apologies for the necessary but breathless italics, exclamation points, parentheses and multiple question marks. The whole multiverse is breathless,...
by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Jul 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
After years of teaching and training on what happens between cultures, I just had a blinding realization I’d somehow missed: When people hear the words, “It’s cultural,” they frequently think what’s written above. “This...
by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Mar 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
The name of this blog is “The Spaces in Between”, and that’s the name of everything I do, really. The Sufi stuff, the Intercultural Relations masters degree, even the Irish music, which draws strength from what seems like another lifetime —...
by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
Over three hundred Sufis dead in Egypt, killed while praying in their mosque or trying to escape. I thought a while about how to respond, besides the same old, “This is not Islam, this is not what Islam teaches.” Suddenly I wrote — and it stayed in...
by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Nov 29, 2017 | Conversations on Spirituality
“You know, when (we) played cowboys and Indians with our friends, I always wanted to be a cowboy. I was in junior high when I realized a guy could be a cowboy and an Indian at the same time.” – Anne Hillerman, Rock with Wings Okay, cut from Navaho...
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