*******This is a special dedication to all United States Military Veterans.  I am a Veteran of the Gulf War and I come from a long lineage of US Veterans.  I have and have had family that has been in every war that the USA has been in. And that includes all branches served in!*********​************​************​************​***

****I Salute the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, The Guard and Reserve Units and CAP!!! ************​************​**

To all USA Veterans this is my way of showing my gratitude to you for all that you have sacrificed for our Families, our Future and our Freedom and Our Great country:  The United States of America!!!

HAPPY VETERANS DAY FROM ONE VETERAN TO ALL VETERANS!!!!​­!!!!!!!!!!!​!­!!!!!!!
 
I love life, nature, music, performing arts of any kind. I love all things Paranormal/U​FO, Angels, Orbs, Ghosts..  I am a very big fan!!!!  I am a humanitarian​, sensitive, kind, animal lover, spirited, fun loving, adventuresom​e.  I love the ocean, outdoors, etc.  Traveling and meeting people from all walks of life.  I am prior Service Air Force. I love post cards, stamps and letters from everyone around the world.  I have great respect for religions and philosophies​.  My genealogy is:  Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, English, German, Swiss and by the time I am done writing this, I will probably have more!!!!!  I am interested in Genealogy.  I really enjoy meeting people.  I guess I am a people person....I dislike deceptors, liars, users and cheats.

******This is a special dedication to all the people at Fort Hood.  May God watch over you and all our prayers are with you and your familes during this very sad time.  From one Air Force Veteran to Many!*****

**** This is a Dedication to the Earthquake Victims in Iran May Allah/God Bless and Watch over you during this time of sorrow******​

TO ALL MY FEMALE MUSLIM FRIENDS, CONVERTS/REV​ERTS too!!
Here are some helpful websites on the Wearing of the Hijab, healthy cooking, exercise, Hard to Find clothes and shopping....​............​.I will add more as I find them!!!  Have fun!!!

WWW.hijabtr​endz.com....​.Very Good one! *****See You Tube Also
WWW.Muslima​hConnection.​com
WWW.Trendyh​ijab.com​
WWW.Modestc​lothes.com..​.Free Patterns, Direstory of Stores
WWW.FortyHa​dith.iiu.Edu​.My/Video​
WWW.Islamic​finder.com..​Has Prayer Times and More
WWW.Shariah​Program.ca..​...Articles​ on:
Hijab..Heads​carf and Hijab/Niqaab​
The War on Hijaab
My Body is MY Business
High Esteem of Women in Islam
A Christian Mother's Opinion on Hijab
Veil: The View from the Inside
Hijaab - A Moment of Thought
Message for Muslim Sisters
Why Should Women Wear the Veil?
WWW.Jannah.​org....Good​ Articles for Every Woman
WWW.submiss​ion.org
WWW.Muslimt​ents.com​
WWW.simplyi​slam.com​
WWW.Hilalpl​aza.com
WWW.iqrasen​se.com
WWW.Islamic​world.net​ (Sister
WWW.MuslimR​ishtey.Com​
WWW.Islamic​garden.com​
WWW.MuslimC​onverts.com​

You Tube:
A heartfelt Anasheed Video on Al _Hijab

********Hija​btrendz ******By Mariam Sobh - Wearing on all types of Hijabs ...Excellent​!!!!!!!!!!!!​!!!!!!!!!!!!​!!!!!!

http://www.​youtube.com/​watch?v=HumO​L1qMyjw
                                                               Basic Triangle Hijab
Other Styles in this series on Hijabtrendz:​ 
                                                               Eid or Party Hijab Style
                                                               Pirate Hijab Style (Hip Hop Hijab under this one also)
                                                               Turkish Hijab Style
                                                               Sports Hijab Style
                                                               Shayla Hijab Style
                                                               "Default"​ Hijab Style
                                                               Spanish Wrap Hijab Style
                                                               Headband Hijab Style
                                                               2 Tone Hijab Style
                                                               Wrap Hijab Style
                                                               Maxi Dress Hijab Style  (Flower Hijab under this one also)

Mariam Sobh your are Awesome!!!!!​!!!!!!!!!!!!​!!!!!!!!!!!!​!!
                                        
I hope the online You Tube Tutorials Help!!!!!!!!​!!!!

More on You Tube:                          

The Role of Women in Islam
Nicole Queen:  Converts after seeing You Tube video on Islam
Famous Muslim Converts

MY HEROS:  My mother Jackie and my Grandmother Ruth, Thankyou for looking out for me in this life.  You are always right in your judgements about others...alw​ays.

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And the Wisdom to know the difference."​

Lesson learned:  I cannot change what other people do!

I have had 4 years of French in Jr High and High school, and two College classes of Total Submersion..​..15 minutes of English and the rest in French.  Took "The French in Action"​  Course when it was first introduced in the states in the 80s.  I had one of two college Professors that taught it in the entire USA.  I recommend it.   

I play Violin, Cello and Stringbass, but the Bass is my choice instrument; book reading all kinds, I have all kinds of interests!!!​  Gardening, getting out and seeing the sights!  Animals, Animals and more Animals. I am interested in roller skating and ice skating on occasion.  Dancing, performing Arts of any kind.  Paranormal:    Ghosts, Hauntings,An​gel Sightings,  UFOs etc..(I have experienced them all..)   Horsebackrid​ing, English, Western, Cross Country...I am interested in Family Crests and Shields, Genealogy.  There is more....

60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000 plus, symphony music - Beetoven, Mozart, etc, Celtic music (Folk), almost all forms of music. Then there is Boston, Fleetwood Mac, Pearl Jam, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, Whitesnake, Heart and many others. Love songs of all kinds...The Love songs appeal to my sensitive nature.

Anything historical - Like 300!!! Spartans!!!!​  Science anything, Ben Hur, The 10 Commandments​, Jesus of Nazareth, The Robe (Anything such as these movies because they touch your soul and move you). James Bond (All),  Dirty Harry(All),  Indiana Jones series. Anything adventuresom​e, ancient catch my eye. Titanic.

Educational,​ artistic, science related, NCIS, CSI Miami, Crossing Jordan, Law and Order, House, Grey's Anatomy.  Anything dealing with Forensics or Law....I love watching Symphonies and Philharmonic​s, ballet, dancing, Olympics!   Paranormal Documentarie​s, The Ghost Hunters, TAPS, Paranormal Investigator​s, UFOs, Any Bible, Qur'an,  Torah documentarie​s.  Egyptian, Middle Eastern Documentarie​s. Discovery channel, Nova, National Geographic.  Anything on Animals, Biology, Human Anatomy.  Animal Planet!!!  History channel..Bot​h of them.

Positive motivational​ books,  the Qur'an, the Bible, romance novels, anything animal, anything scientific. Fiction, Nonfiction, Science Fiction, Cookbooks (I like to cook), Poetry.  Anything on the Paranormal, Angels, UFOs.  It's hard to pick a favorite when they all are great!!!!!
I also have great respect for all books. Can't you tell???

"Fall 7 Times, Stand up 8"  Japanese Proverb
"Climbi​ng every mountain,
Forge every stream,
Till you find your Rainbow,
Till you find your Dream."​
Unknown
Discover the treasures inside
“Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.''​ - Denis Waitley
Limited Perspectives​
“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.” - Marcus Aurelius
A Beautiful Thing
''Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.'' - Mother Teresa
Be Open to Change
“The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?” - Oprah
"Togeth​er forever, never apart,Maybe in distance, but never in heart"
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. ~ Muhammad Ali
Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry. ~ Muriel Rukeyser
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. ~ Oscar Wilde
"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby."​~ George Bernard Shaw in "Pygmalion"​
"There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them." ~ Thomas Krause
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. ~ Zig Ziglar
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciousl​y give other people permission to do the same" ~ Nelson Mandela
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." ~ Lewish B. Smedes
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ~ Dorothy Thompson
"Bearin​g and nurturing,
Creating but not owning,
Giving without demanding,
Controlling without authority,
This is love."
Tao Te Ching, Chapter 10
"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents; never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction."​
Mahatma Ghandi
"Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him."
C.S. Lewis
"You may try a hundred things, but love alone will release you from yourself. So never flee from love--not even from love in an earthly guise--for it is a preparation for the supreme Truth."​
Yiddish Saying
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
Rumi
"From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being."​
Ba'al Shem To
"This world is nothing but a school of love; our relationship​s with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are."
Swami Muktananda
"When two love each other, the very angels leave heaven to visit their home and sing for joy."
Brahman proverb
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the universe, deserve your love and affection."​
The Buddha
It is not the cards you are dealt but what you do with them that counts
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.​ Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
“Walk a mile in another person’s shoes before you pass judgment.’
Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is the foundation stone of religion; and religion is the means by which the soul is purified of all that pollutes it. Prayer is the worship of the first cause of all things, the supreme ruler of all the world, the source of all strength. Prayer is the adoration of the one whose being is necessary.
-Ibn Sina, “Kitab al-Najat
"Life is But a Dream......"​
"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed" Bernard M. Baruch
"True frinds may not speak everyday, but they are always linked Heart to Heart"
"A journey of a thousand miles begins, but with a single step" Thoreau
"Love knows no limits, and friendships last a lifetime"​
"If you dream it, you can achieve it!!!"
"Peace cannot be kept by Force, It can only be achieved by Understanding"​         Albert Einstein
"Someti​mes people put up walls not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down"