HE WHO SEEKS...Pg. 17

He walks and drives and flies, like an errant butterfly...and creates imagery in his wake as he moves from Afghanistan to Qatar to Egypt and beyond.

You can't fake his intensity, nor can you deny his propensity for seeking knowledge and experience.

I am growing fond of watching his endless circling of life, as if to say...this is MINE, and it is good.
But, no. He doesn't command but absorbs. Learns and immerses himself. No up on the shelf for this boy.

Joy, he brings as he moves among those he meets. He never cheats with his emotions, an open book for all to see. Warmth in his smile, and totally without guile.

THIS IS Jafar Noor. A son of Afghanistan. A student of the world. An adventurer. A traveler. A brass ring if you will...and I as so many others merely follow to see where he goes and what he does, eyes wide with wonder.

An Ambassador in the making, a world for his taking perhaps...a world view way beyond the confines of his home country. Like a few others I know from Afghanistan, it is these outward-looking Afghans that provide the greatest promise to the future of a country that sorely needs peace.

Everyday, I pray for the release from war a beautiful country and a proud and dynamic people who deserve it.

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