Heather King's Friday, July 15

Friday, July 15, 2011

Here is a glimpse of Heather’s day today!

                        

Meeting #1: She started her day off with a meeting with Spidey, her webmaster - she wants to tweak her webpage. Oh, just in case you didn’t know, it’s election season.

Meeting #2: She met with a blueberry farmer, who has serious drainage issues on his farm. Her goal was to gain more insight into the challenges that continue to plague our local farmers. Getting food to our tables is a priority. She recognizes that there is a need to look at better long term strategies to assist farmers and she wants to be a part of the solution.

Meeting #3: She had another one of her mystery meetings. She met with a possible Councillor Candidate from North Delta. I tried to engage her in the hot/cold guessing game. I sounded like an owl, "Who, who".  NO such luck! Her lips were so tight, she was pucker-faced. Hours later, I am still trying to guess.

Meeting #4: She picked up her son on Westham Island and headed home by 5:00 PM.

OK, that’s enough about Heather; it’s time to learn a new thing. I posted Wednesday’s Toastmasters meeting on our Facebook page (Ambassadors Toastmasters) and just a few minutes ago, Azhar Khan’s friend posted a comment under Azhar’s picture “Good Mashallah”.

Curious I looked up Mashallah in Wikipedia and here is what I found – it’s just too good of a word not to share. 

"Mā šāʾ Allāh (ما شاء الله) is an Arabic phrase that expresses appreciation, joy, praise or thankfulness for an event or person that was just mentioned.^]Towards this, it is used as an expression of respect, while at the same time serving as a reminder that all accomplishments are so achieved by the will of God. The literal English translation is "whatever God (Allah) wills". 

 The dialog continued on Facebook and  Azhar expanded Wikipedia`s definition:

"Mashallah is an Arabic word and we usually use this word to protect a person for by the name of God from Evil eyes / Curse. e.g. When a child look so cute or you buy a new car / home or you look good."

OK, I might need therapy, but some words are better than others and this is a great word. Using it in a sentence, “Heather is a good Mashallah”.