Pain is only a problem, according to C. S. Lewis, if we fear it.
Often pain is less "painful" than agonizing about it.

  

 

I've been painting all day and am exhausted.

  

 

No pain no gain? So tell me how many thousand years we're to suffer before we can finally gain our Democracy?


CBS is showing a program on Mr.(!)Rafsanjani's wealth.

...Human Rights Activist? Read Pedram Moallemian's blog from time to time.



still have a cold!

  

 

Paint. Paint. Paint. I painted all night long. Yesterday I had to sit and listen to this guy talking about how Middle Easterners marry four wives, divorce their wives one after another, want to have virgins, kill their girls, and stone women to death. His words cut my heart but I did not stand up to him. In fact I did nothing. I didn't say a word and sat and stared at him. I so much wanted it was otherwise. I so wanted to stop his mouth from spitting those words but I couldn't. I couldn't because they're true and no matter how I react the act still exist in the Middle East and I can't change the fact that Women (or men) do not have basic human rights!
I painted all night to forget my frozen heart, my frozen hands, and my frozen existence in the history and took refuge in the arms of my husband and our baby whose very existence warms up my whole being.
Thank you P and baby-jan for loving me.

Baby's friend may come this Friday. J and I will take the kids for a walk. Our husbands are colleagues. It's strange to see how life changes and choices differ from the time one is a bachelor/ bachelorett!



...I may not agree with everything she writes but I read Azar va Ayneash from time to time. If you don�t know Persian please don�t ask me to translate what she writes. I don�t have time.

  

 

Can American politicians see that physical devastation and economic disorder would make Iraq vulnerable to (Islamic) extremists' influence?

  

 

Free Sina Motallebi (Sina Mottalebi, Sina Mottallebi, Sina Motalebi) Iranian Journalist and blogger (go to PetitionOnline.)

What factors gave rise to the cold war between the Mullahs and Iranian Journalists?
There are at least twenty million people who have similar views as these journalists!
How many more Iranians will end up in the oppressive Iranian regime's prisons?

  

 

A friend sent me this:

"Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking" - John Wain

I'm a poet and love dancing so there you go!


Persian American HAALE Rocks.
...and have your heard the Iranian born Azam Ali's songs?

  

 

I've a cold.

  

 

In my view, oil cannot be separated from the geopolitical equations of the Middle East. At the same time, however, I believe it is misleading to attribute the roots of this conflict to oil alone. In order to defeat communism or the so-called �evil empire�, the US found weird bedfellows among Islamic fundamentalists and stayed ambivalent about them for almost a decade after the old adversary was defeated. The tragic events of September 11, or in Professor Fred Halliday�s words the two hours that shook the world changed the paradigm of international relations forever. The world of the 21st century won�t be one in which tyrants and fanatics are supported/appeased by democracies. It will be a world built on alliance of democracies, which together deal the final blow to fundamentalism and terrorism. I see Iraq�s liberation as the first step towards that end. The US has come to realize the importance of security in the region and the inseparable relationship between security and democracy in that region. I truly hope that this leads to democratization of the region and peace for everyone just as US intervention in Europe brought prosperity to the continent.

  

 

Will the defeat of Saddam bring stability to Iraq and the world?

  

 

It's such a crazy day...
have you seen this?