A Calm Storm

The blog of Sholeh Samadani Munion

Month: March 2006

Mesozoic

The middle managers are all wearing blue shirts & khakis today, walking to their meeting in single file. The sales guys know my name, but to me they all look the same. Office dinosaurs wander around the jungle of cubicles…

Girodet

Last Tuesday I went with my father and sister to the Girodet exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767�1824) was a French painter, and the exhibit is overwhelming. I must say that he is my…

Incommunicado

Anna Quindlen’s Newsweek article, The Face In The Crowd, talks about the facelessness of today’s communication experience. She notes that, “A face-to-face meeting often means the difference between understanding and estrangement.” How often do we send an email or a…

The Fast

“Well is it with you, as you have followed the Law of God and arisen to observe the Fast during these blessed days, for this physical fast is a symbol of the spiritual fast. This Fast leadeth to the cleansing…

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