{"id":2094,"date":"2010-10-19T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T18:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2010-10-19T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T18:13:43","slug":"the-things-that-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/2094","title":{"rendered":"The things that I do"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realize, looking over recent posts, that I assume that the majority of my readers know what is going on in my life, or even what my day-to-day life looks like.\u00c2\u00a0 However, it is difficult for me to gauge my audience these days.\u00c2\u00a0 6 or 7 years ago, I knew pretty much everyone who read my blog.\u00c2\u00a0 I know that isn’t the case anymore.<\/p>\n

My working life AND personal life revolve around the Baha’i Faith.\u00c2\u00a0 I work for the national governing body of the Baha’is in the United States, so I am constantly immersed in the Faith at work…and I LOVE my job.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes on lunch breaks I go to the House of Worship to pray and check out the restoration\/construction work.<\/p>\n

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Once a week I try to attend a devotional (prayer) gathering at my friends’ house in Chicago.\u00c2\u00a0 We have a late potluck brunch, prayers, and often spend the rest of the afternoon enjoying everyone’s company.\u00c2\u00a0 There is usually some kind of music\/singing, too!\u00c2\u00a0 I haven’t had a lot of time to attend over the summer, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

During the summer a small group of friends gathered for a Baha’i study circle, book 6 in the Ruhi sequence, which is about refining our inner lives, learning, and teaching the Baha’i Faith.\u00c2\u00a0 The great thing about study circles in the Baha’i context is that the facilitator is not at a higher level than the rest of the group…we’re really all learning together!\u00c2\u00a0 We just finished it last week.<\/p>\n

In August I hosted a 3 night study on the Ridvan Message from the Universal House of Justice<\/a>, the governing body of the Baha’is of the world.\u00c2\u00a0 Baha’is from my local community came to my home to read and discuss.\u00c2\u00a0 It gave me an opportunity to get to know the people in my community, and we ate really<\/em> well.<\/p>\n

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I also participate in Nineteen Months<\/a>, which I post about on this blog occasionally, and it has been stretching my photographic skills.\u00c2\u00a0 On September 13 I modeled and shot photos as a last minute favor for some friends, which was super fun and I wish I had the opportunity to do it more often.<\/p>\n

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I also went to a few Baha’i conferences in August and September, which were super fun but then laid me out sick because I didn’t rest or sleep for a couple weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 October was the month of weddings.\u00c2\u00a0 The first weekend was a wedding in NYC, the third weekend was a wedding in Peoria.\u00c2\u00a0 I still haven’t unpacked from either wedding.<\/p>\n

Of course, mixed into all of this are friends visiting from out of town, friends moving in and out of Chicago, family gatherings, making plans, reading books, fixing my condo (yes I’m still working on that), baby showers, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 I miss writing about my life, and I’d like to do more of it here.\u00c2\u00a0 Twitter & Facebook are still there, and I utilize them for their purpose, but this is the place that is truly “me” on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realize, looking over recent posts, that I assume that the majority of my readers know what is going on in my life, or even what my day-to-day life looks like.\u00c2\u00a0 However, it is difficult for me to gauge my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahai","category-personal","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}