In the dying days of 2007 some of my Blog readers were enquiring about why I use the cybername Easy Nash so I did what any self-respecting Blogger would do: I prepared a post to explain myself including why I decided to start writing a Blog in the first place. The Blog was my own private retirement project undertaken to satisfy my curiosity about a topic that has enthralled, fascinated and preoccupied me since I was a 17-year old undergraduate Science student at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada during the early 1970s: the link between Science and Religion in Islam. I began writing my Blog in March 2006 after hearing some inspirational words from His Highness Aga Khan IV, 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Nizari Ismaili Muslims, during his visit to Toronto in June 2005. I also remarked that another reason for blogging was to keep my brain exercised during retirement and “prevent it from turning into mush”
Read further … http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2009/12/533a-blog-begun-as-retirement-project.html
Ismailimail 
Good luck Nash, you have a fine quality blog with substance and a message. Hope more people take inspirations.
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I can certainly identify with that. It was until retiring in 2003 that I had the time to research and write my e-book “the greatest achievement in life” at http://www.suprarational.org on comparative mysticism among Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.
It had been an interest for more than 50 years, but during my career in sales management I never had the time to read the 180 books or to consult with religious leaders and scholars across the U.S. in preparation for writing and, later, getting their critiques.
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