amanda quraishi

amanda quraishi

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  • Reckoning.
  • Reckoning | 1.3 | Inside the Ark

    The story of Noah’s Ark was often used as a literal example of what was going to happen to the world when God finally decided to once again cleanse the earth in a global Armageddon. The forces of nature would be used to murder billions of people who refused to heed the warnings of impending […]

    amandatheq

    August 12, 2022
    Reckoning
  • Hope is Not a Good Feeling

    Hope is Not a Good Feeling

    As I’m coming out of the darkest depressive episode I’ve had in a decade, I’m starting to reflect on my despair. I spent a long time staring out of windows and curling up in the fetal position this year. For months I thought that perhaps I was going to be lost for good. I was […]

    amandatheq

    August 12, 2022
    Living Well
  • The Gentle Life

    Yesterday, as I was taking a leisurely stroll through my neighborhood, a thought occurred to me — one that had not occurred before in all of my 48 years: Perhaps I deserve a gentle life. My life has not been gentle by any stretch of the imagination. Not physically, emotionally, intellectually or spiritually. I was […]

    amandatheq

    August 9, 2022
    Living Well
  • Reckoning | 1.2 | And I Feel Fine

    As I look back and try to explain my childhood to people, I do realize how bizarre it all sounds. My entire worldview including the purpose of religious community, my understanding of the nature of God, and the way I related to other human beings outside my church was quite literally sociopathic. The matter-of-fact way […]

    amandatheq

    August 4, 2022
    Reckoning
  • Reckoning | 1.1 | It’s the End of the World As We Know It

    I was born in the spring of 1974, right before the world was about to end. At least, that’s what The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, (the official name of the small Christian sect known as Jehovah’s Witnesses) had predicted. Based on creative interpretation of select biblical verses and some “divinely inspired” […]

    amandatheq

    July 28, 2022
    Reckoning
  • It’s OK to Stop For a While.

    It’s OK to Stop For a While.

    “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” – Audre Lorde It’s hotter’n hell outside, and it feels like everything around me has come to a screeching halt as a few hundred million of my fellow Americans and I try to wrap our heads around what […]

    amandatheq

    July 5, 2022
    Activism, Feminism, Politics, Uncategorized
  • Reckoning | Three Religions. One Story.

    Reckoning | Three Religions. One Story.

    An autobiographical blog series about religious practice, interfaith engagement, and seeking what is True. Table of Contents Part I Introduction (below) 1.1 | It’s the End of the World As We Know It 1.2 | And I Feel Fine 1.3 | Inside the Ark 1.4 | From Whence I’ve Come 1.5 | Making Our Family Life Happy 1.6 | Sweet Pea […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Reckoning
  • On Belonging

    On Belonging

    MAYA ANGELOU: You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great… BILL MOYERS: Do you belong anywhere? MAYA ANGELOU: I haven’t yet. BILL MOYERS: Do you belong to anyone? MAYA ANGELOU: More and more… I […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Living Well, Society
  • On Motherhood.

    On Motherhood.

    There is no greater joy. There is no greater responsibility. There is no greater fear. There is no greater pride. Motherhood is hard. Done right, it takes everything out of you. It changes you, pushes and pulls you in to a shape that feels familiar and alien all at the same time. Having watched my […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Feminism, Living Well
  • Aimless

    Aimless

    Over the past few weeks I’ve been limiting my engagement with other people (as I periodically do) in order to focus on personal projects, and to give my heart a rest from the non-stop, 24/7 shit-show that makes for public discourse these days. Unlike my previous social sabbaticals, though, I am struggling to use this […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Living Well, Zen
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