shukur
i had a great eid- everyone was in a perfect mood and i felt a real appreciation for my family and friends. taher took his exam and thought it went very well. and i got a new client, the kind i've been looking for and hoping for for a long time.
i have been trying to contact this lead for two months, and he called me on tuesday and dropped a huge project into my lap. i am writing a newsletter for a non-profit organization that tells of the situation in pakistan after the earthquake. i am writing of the people, their suffering, their stories. i am including pictures that are incredibly real and won't get out of my head.
this assignment will, inshallah, be a permanent monthly assignment- i will, as the months go on, cover different programs that this NPO develops. and i believe, after only one day of working on it, that it will be different from any other writing i have ever done.
it is not difficult to write poignantly when your topic is suffering. but it is difficult to do justice to your topic when you know that something significant and weighty rests upon the quality of your work. i must deliver, because like all NPO's, this one needs me to touch people's hearts and turn them into donors.
i worked on this assignment for hours yesterday, on eid. i didn't keep the plans i had originally made for the day because i wanted to do a good job, and i think i made some progress towards that end. i was told, later, that many of the people i had been writing of didn't even celebrate eid. of course. they were too busy looking for their missing relatives and waiting in line for supplies of food and water.
anyway. this post is about shukur, so before i tangent off irrevocably, i will end here.
mubarak to us all.
i had a great eid- everyone was in a perfect mood and i felt a real appreciation for my family and friends. taher took his exam and thought it went very well. and i got a new client, the kind i've been looking for and hoping for for a long time.
i have been trying to contact this lead for two months, and he called me on tuesday and dropped a huge project into my lap. i am writing a newsletter for a non-profit organization that tells of the situation in pakistan after the earthquake. i am writing of the people, their suffering, their stories. i am including pictures that are incredibly real and won't get out of my head.
this assignment will, inshallah, be a permanent monthly assignment- i will, as the months go on, cover different programs that this NPO develops. and i believe, after only one day of working on it, that it will be different from any other writing i have ever done.
it is not difficult to write poignantly when your topic is suffering. but it is difficult to do justice to your topic when you know that something significant and weighty rests upon the quality of your work. i must deliver, because like all NPO's, this one needs me to touch people's hearts and turn them into donors.
i worked on this assignment for hours yesterday, on eid. i didn't keep the plans i had originally made for the day because i wanted to do a good job, and i think i made some progress towards that end. i was told, later, that many of the people i had been writing of didn't even celebrate eid. of course. they were too busy looking for their missing relatives and waiting in line for supplies of food and water.
anyway. this post is about shukur, so before i tangent off irrevocably, i will end here.
mubarak to us all.
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