A Calm Storm

The blog of Sholeh Samadani Munion

Chicken with spinach & cheese

Many of my cooking adventures begin because I am hungry, not because I carefully planned it. I look in the fridge, see what I have, and start cooking. The other night I got creative and got lucky. This recipe makes…

Do Aliens exist?

“Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.” -Baha’u’llah NASA announced a discovery today regarding a “microorganism (that) substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in its cell components.”…

lucky stars

There are a few ways to count lucky stars. In the quiet way, 1 2 3 in a row, listed in order, in a way that makes you think of libraries, lace doilies, and trying too hard. Then there are…

Light and Power

“This is the divinely-inscribed Book. This is the outspread Tablet. Say, this indeed is the Frequented Fane, the sweet-scented Leaf, the Tree of divine Revelation, the surging Ocean, the Utterance which lay concealed, the Light above every light… Indeed every…

unwisdom

“Let us also remember that at the very root of the Cause lies the principle of the undoubted right of the individual to self-expression, his freedom to declare his conscience and set forth his views. If certain instructions of the…

reminders

It happens every few weeks, or months.  A reminder of what I left behind.  It comes with a sudden warm, coastal wind, or a flower that I saw every day, or a friend’s smiling face.  It sometimes sneaks up, like…

Goodbye

I am mired in this in-between state, keeping emotions at bay and I can’t seem to process anything right now.  My days are on the edge of frantic, the evenings a collapse into numb mindlessness.  I am scattered, but to…

For Gavin

O my God! O my God! Verily, Thy servant, humble before the majesty of Thy divine supremacy, lowly at the door of Thy oneness, hath believed in Thee and in Thy verses, hath testified to Thy word, hath been enkindled…

Saying prayers

For the Yaran. For the flood-stricken in Pakistan. For the women of Congo. For everyone. Lauded be Thy name, O my God! Thou beholdest how the tempestuous winds of tests have caused the steadfast in faith to tremble, and how…

Hidden Gem

I started reading the Kitab-i-Iqan (Book of Certitude) again this week.  It is one of Baha’u’llah’s most important books, and I realized that I hadn’t spent enough time with it, especially in light of questions that have been coming my…

Sound waves

I’ve been immersed in some pretty amazing music recently .  If you want to know the playlist running through my head, here ya go! Jonsi, the lead singer of Sigur Rós, put on a fantastic live show on April 27…

Baha’i Youth

“We may well emulate Bahá’í youth whose recent surge forward into the van of proclamation and teaching is one of the most encouraging and significant trends in the Faith, and who storm the gates of heaven for support in their…

Arts and music

I had the opportunity to volunteer at the 4th Annual Baha’i Choral Music Festival in May. It was wonderful to see so many people at the House of Worship. I was manning the main entrance for both performances, so I…

Food things

When I was little, I loved bleu cheese salad dressing.  If ever given a choice, I would choose that.  I don’t know why, especially because I find it rather revolting now (especially since it usually contains gluten). Most salad dressings…

A random collection

I really needed a weekend of nothing.  It feels good. Things to be happy about, a list: -summer and all that it implies -friendship & family -dustless surfaces -orange-blueberry muffins -breakfast on a slow Sunday morning -fireworks on the beach…

oh.

start. stop. stuttering. my heart crashes into the pit of my stomach I might forget for 5 minutes, or an hour, and then it all rushes back. in circular thought I spin in dreams we claw through mud as thick…

Of tornadoes and silence

after the storm is this, the lingering headache and colors I run through the thundering waters the sky’s tears, the sky’s laughter the steady beat tapping out too soon subsiding in exhaustion. wait, wait! In every tiny reflection, in every…

Distinction

O ye who have turned your faces toward the Exalted Beauty! By night, by day, at morningtide and sunset, when darkness draweth on, and at early light I remember, and ever have remembered, in the realms of my mind and…

Follow up

I got a lot of responses about my last post, in many different ways: email, chat, Twitter, Facebook, and, shockingly, real life.  I had no idea that the subject would resonate so strongly.  There were suggestions to delete/deactivate my Facebook…

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