A child girl, an older brother, a younger brother

An alphabet spoken at home

Different alphabet spoken outside home

Aromatic Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine

Melodious songs in movies

Temples and churches alongside mosques

Christians, Parsis, and Shi’as married in the family

A teenage girl, American pop culture, Greenpeace

Dreams of saving the whales and dolphins

Wears peace sign earrings and pendants

Poverty, oppression, and wars

Travels to India, Europe, Africa, and America

A young woman, a mother, a doctor

Loves the serenity in churches

The devotion in temples, the “ohm” of yogis

The oneness of humanity in the hajj

Rejected the sermons and speeches in Arabic, English, and Hindi that told her to hate the other

A woman followed her heart

Reads the bible, reads the Quran, and wants to read the Bhagavad Gita

A woman in love, with different versions of the alphabet

With different hues of human skin

With different dresses, with different foods, with different prayers

With different rituals, with different thoughts, with different humors

The mature woman

Her life has been a walk through beautiful prairies and forest

With trees, flowers, birds, critters of different colors, shapes, and scents

And she is in love with all of it

Cover art: Noorah Kareem