I'm a champ at feeding the people I love, listening deeply, empathizing, asking intuitive, perceptive questions, and rooting hard for them to grow and be happy and do their lives in the way that suits them best.

My vision for my life: to nurture a family and a relationship, to be of service, and to write.

I value learning and growth. I think this is why we're here - to learn and grow. And to love.

Close friends describe me as smart, curious, loving, and intuitive.

I scribble/type. I read. I muse. I cook the delicious foods (of Pakistani and other varieties). I spend time with my favorite people and we laugh into the wee hours.

Gathering people together. Intrepid adventuring to points unknown. Keeping an open heart. Research (the highest form of adoration!). Non-violent communication. Smiling at you with crinkly eyes.

My eyes.

Marilynne Robinson, Norman Rush, Audre Lorde, Maxine Hong Kingston, Rumi, Hafiz, old soul, new soul, the blues, abstract art of many kinds, Downton Abbey, The Piano, Moonstruck, Bull Durham, all the yummy gracious plants and animals that give up their lives so that we might live.

The desert, my favorite pens, farmers' markets, libraries (the finest product of our civilization!), my favorite chef's knife, abstraction

How much of us is spirit, and how much is machinery. The state of the world. The human condition. Intellectual elegance. You. Where are you?

Having dinner with a friend. Or staying in and cooking, or reading, or Netflix-watching.

Cooking isn't fully fun without an appreciative audience.

You know you want to be married and have kids. You want to still be madly in love on your 25th wedding anniversary.

You're kind, loving, stable, and affectionate, with heaps of integrity.