Love & Marriage| ازدواج وعشق

A Voice from Iran

“93rd story”

First published: May.30.2019

 

Abas asked his father: “What is the difference between love and marriage?”

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His father’s phone rang at the same time and the question stayed unanswered.

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The next day his father handed an old, antique book to Abas.

Abas said: “This is a very valuable book; I promise that I will take good care of it.”

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Abas later put the treasured book on a special place in his bookcase to store it.

A few days later his father was reading a newspaper, when he put it down Abas picked the paper up to read it.

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His father said: “This newspaper belongs to the neighbour, I borrowed it for today only. I have to return it this afternoon.”Abas read the important parts of the paper fast and made sure he didn’t miss anything.

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When Abas was reading fast and paying attention to the paper, his father…

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Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom’s Call page 32, and Racial Justice

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

It is crucial that we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us today, and to come and work together, for all of us, right?  

 

I believe that attention to shared histories, as in DC, may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

” … Racial Justice Initiative (RJI)
“…ending violence against our own values as a nation.” -Dr. Edgar Cahn

The Racial Justice Initiative (RJI) came about in 2008 as a result of the work with Time Banks USA. Funding for Time Banks had led to the formation of many middle class Time Banks in small towns and enclaves of larger towns, which were Time Banks mostly of the individual or person to person category.

This highlighted the problems the author noted as a member of the…

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Virgínia Woolf

Vivaldi translation: ”It is much more difficult to kill a ghost than a reality. ”

Virginia Woolf

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” É muito mais difícil matar um fantasma do que uma realidade. “

Virgínia Woolf

https://www.pensador.com

Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

Imagem: pinterest/ La Capana del Silenzio

Santarém, Pa 7 de outubro de 2021

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Yanomami et Arbres – Mines d’Or et objets de luxe en Or / COVID-19 propagé par les Orpailleurs – «Pas de Cartier !» – L’exposition est prolongée pendant l’année prochaine jusqu’au 4 décembre 2022

Barbara Crane Navarro

Performance : Sculpture de feu, La Miroiterie, Paris, France – 2006 : Barbara Crane Navarro

«Les chamans Yanomami qui combattent l’épidémie de xawara voient l’image de la maladie apparaître sous la forme de bandes de tissu écarlate. L’épidémie de xawara approche et sa fumée est rougeoyante! Elle fait du ciel un fantôme et dévore tous les êtres humains en son chemin! Il faut le chasser!»

– Davi Kopenawa, porte-parole des Yanomami et chaman, Roraima, Brésil, d’après son livre «La chute du ciel»

«Les chamans Yanomami luttent contre le xawara – la fumée des épidémies»
installation – technique mixte
Barbara Crane Navarro

Les chamans de la région du Haut-Orénoque en Amazonie, au Venezuela, m’ont décrit – oru a wakëxi – la fumée d’or en ces termes des décennies avant que je lis les paroles de Davi. En rêvant dans mon hamac dans la maison collective Yanomami, le shabono, j’ai vu…

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Lakota Nation vs. the United States — LANDBACK Friends

Barbara Crane Navarro

Lakota Nation vs. the United States


Art can be a powerful tool for justice and activism. Can reach the heart when the mind is closed. Following is an announcement about a documentary film that is being produced, Lakota Nation vs. the United States. The announcement helps explain why the Black Hills are a focus of #LANDBACK. LOS ANGELES — Documentary film[…]

Lakota Nation vs. the United States — LANDBACK Friends

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A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson – Free Ebook — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Barbara Crane Navarro

Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 Title: A Century of Dishonor A Sketch of the United States Government’s Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes Source: A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson – Free Ebook Project Gutenberg books are always free! in multiple formats An excerpt on one of a number of massacres: “One day[…]

A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson – Free Ebook — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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More than 100 Afghans from music school flown out of country

More than 100 students, alumni and faculty members of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music have been flown out of Kabul on their way to Portugal, where the government has agreed to grant them asylum, the institute’s director said Monday.

They were on board a flight carrying 235 people out of Kabul’s international airport to Qatar on Sunday. It was the largest airlift of Afghan nationals since Taliban fighters seized Afghanistan in mid-August, two weeks before the U.S. and NATO withdrew their forces from the country after a 20-year military presence.

“You cannot imagine how happy I am. Yesterday I was crying for hours,” the school’s founder and director, Ahmad Sarmast, said from his home in Melbourne, Australia.

The musicians join tens of thousands of Afghans, including many from the country’s sports and arts scene, who have fled since August. Among the recent evacuees are Afghanistan’s female robotics team, known as the “Afghan Dreamers,” and a girls soccer team who resettled in Mexico and Portugal, respectively.

Source: More than 100 Afghans from music school flown out of country