Today is the first day of the month of Rejab in the Islamic calendar. By tradition, and simple good sense, a time to think ahead to the holy month of Ramadhan, which lies two lunar months hence. So that's what I've been doing today, amongst other things.
As usual the thought of fasting for a full thirty days brings with it a sense of trepidation; and as usual the thought of fasting in Ramadhan engenders a kind of excitement. In my very senior years I'm finding the balance tipping the way of excitement, but the trepidation remains very useful in terms of getting myself mentally geared up for what is, at one level, a test. (At another, deeper, level it's a blessing - but that's always a discovery to be made, not a cliché to be assumed.)
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