Visiting Susan & Matt

Salma and I stayed with my friends Susan and Matt for a while. Here's some photos of Salma with their kids Jack, Ella & Tillie.

The Interfaith group

I've been going to this "Interfaith" group, which is a discussion group composed of people of different religions (such as Muslim, Christian, and Baha'i) and also people who don't necessarily subscribe to any organized religion but are interested in spirituality. Anyway, the group discussions are really interesting. We've discussed all kinds of topics over the past few months, such as what it means to live an examined life, the relationship between science and religion, politics and religion, spirituality and religion, and patriarchy/sexism and religion, the meaning of "equality," and the concept of universal education. As you can see, we've covered quite a lot of ground! Some of the folks in group are leaving Bangladesh, so we took a group photo last week before they left. Anyway, here we are (there are more people in the group, but these are the only ones who showed up that day)!

Meeting up with Anwar, an old friend

We met up with our old friend Anwar the other day! We went to Washington State University together, and we used to get together with him and his wife Lois to have some real Bengali food. (Anwar is a fabulous cook!) And he made some delicious curry for our wedding dinner. Anyway, he came back to Dhaka last week for his brother's wedding, and he looked us up. Here's a photo we took with him at the wedding. It was so nice to see him after such a long time!