Since I scheduled the first post of An Ode to Heartbreak yesterday by mistake, I will use this regular Sunday slot to welcome everyone who has joined this past week. This blog is hitting record levels of website visits in its whole two year run!

Thank you for reading and joining. We are rapidly approaching 200 people!

I also want to take this chance to also thank all of you who have been here week in and week out, over the all the Sundays of the past 2 years.

I hope you are enjoying the poems and meditations, you can read them all now, or wait for the audio version with music, reflections and meditations to come out every Sunday.

As promised, The Gumpcast Season 2 is also going to be launching this week! It will be released here, as well as your favorite podcast hosting station. (Apple, Google, Spotify, Podbean and others)

I am thrilled to announce that Episode 12 will be airing this Wednesday and will be featuring the incredibly complex issue of Nationalism.

Fear not though, we have an expert!

Stay tuned.

Stay curious.

Stay gumptionized.

In Search of Gumption

Musing #7: Gumption

Listen now (16 min) | This post is available in audio for people on the go. Hit play above or continue reading below. Writing these posts every Sunday fuels me up for the rest of the week. Hitting publish feels like a butterfly flickering out of a magician’s hat on a sunny day. A hot air ballon soaring upwards in an open blue sky. It is a magnificent feeling. Things that make…

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8 months ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Omar Shaker