A Calm Storm

The blog of Sholeh Samadani Munion

Month: March 2005

A tasty combination

Zucchini, broccoli, carrots, and onions, fried in some canola oil with salt, pepper, garlic. Simple, fast, healthy, yum. Serve over rice or as a side dish. The weather was so beyootiful today!! I was ecstatic, and celebrated by purchasing some…

Tripped up

Have you ever been walking down the street in your business slacks and heels with a snazzy purse on your shoulder makeup done perfectly, not a hair out of place striding down the sidewalk with an emphatic click on each…

In a rhyme

I don’t normally like to rhyme so much, but this poem just wanted to be written, I had no control over it. 😉 I see one taking up the burden and this one holding down the fort one reaching out…

Naw-Ruz

It is the Baha’i New Year, Naw-Ruz. It is also the Persian New Year. When I went home last night I was greeted with a haft-sin table, which included a lot of very cute goldfish swimming merrily in a bowl….

Hellooooo?

I wonder where my friends are. I wonder why people read, but don’t leave a comment saying hi. I know you’re out there, blog-lurkers. Silent readers who visit the page and whisk themselves away before writing me a little message….

Yes?

Never shall I abandon this intoxicating bliss Since you conquered my heart before I ever existed. -Sa’di The ink on this page bleeds through spreads to make artistic patterns on an otherwise pristine desk I look in dismay at the…

Theology? Who needs it?

I may actually be allergic to theological discussions. Hear me out. I was at our Baha’i Youth Desk meeting here at my house when some people started on a tangent about something. I don’t really know what they were saying,…

dismiss

I feel a certain reticence in my speech right now. Last night Lindsey asked if I wanted gum…and I didn’t, because I didn’t have the energy to move my jaw. hmm. The beautiful sun and warmth of yesterday was replaced…

This is what I see

There was a man on the bus who talked on his cell phone to an unseen face explaining how to cook pork chops (just salt, that is what I use. Or squeeze lemon!) He talked about not having taken a…

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