Salaam Iran

I am so proud

I'm so happy to see all these nice comments and well wishings here!

I hope we can keep up this spirit year round .

Again,

SAR-E HAMEGI SABZ

Dance

No matter what the circumstances... smile , have fun and rejoice

(Attention Ali P who wanted to know if men should gher)

 //www.youtube.com/watch?v=owYs86DtH1A

IRANdokht

Dear Midwesty..

Thank you for your kind words. I do appreciate your good will and sincerity.You're a well wisher and it means alot to me...BLESS YOU :)

Respectfully,Mona

Same to you Bang Man

Sorry for the video's quality.

//www.nme.com/video/id/d2iGXFiWxp0/search/tasnif

عید همگی مبارک!

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjtmcJWL8PU&feature...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6qCpLOebZ0

Ali jan,

Glad you liked it. You know cyber conversing is a tricky business. Usually I am afraid I say something and it translates to something else. Glad you liked it. That verse was also one of my all time favorites. First time I heard it, it was in one of Iraj Bastami's song. God bless his soul he died in Bam earthquake in the Arg. He had a very warm voice. They used to say he was the future Ostaad Shajarian.  //www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGP4J5mpvl8

Anonymouse jan,

Thanks! Let's remember and not to forget again. I wish you the same brother.

ابرمرد

همچنین برای شما و خانواده و نزدیکان عزیزت. از دور دستت رو به گرمی می فشارم برادر.

Nazy,

Thanks dear! I tell you one thing and I don't wanna spoil you by that. Your heart ROCKS! You are an inspiration.

Take care and happy new year!

xerxes-7

Beautiful video. Dance! :O)

Thanks Brother! I don't think I can efford living in NYC or Northen California as the video suggested. For now I am knocking myslef out with the rednecks in the midwest. I love pain you know! ;O)

Thanks a lot. Enjoyed it. Try to do whatever even small for your loved ones. Nothing is small when it is mixed with love.

Regards,

Anonymousk

It was beautiful brother. The beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Same and many more to you and to your loved ones. We are one big and noisy family and I love it.  I don't want it changed and I won't exchange it with the heaven and earth.

Thanks a lot! 

مجید

دلت سبز برار

IRANdokht

Same to you dear and more. You have absolutely captured the spirit of Nowruz, "we should be grateful for what we have no matter how little, and despite how lonely we may feel especially during this season."

Regards,  

To: Midwesty

  ...  شرط اول قدم آنست که مجنون باشی ...

bah bah...right on brother.

Happy Norooz,

Ali P.

Eid-e hamegee mobarak

I remember one time there we were talking to this poor guy on a street corner near some shopping and my uncle gave him some money telling him eid-et mobarak.  He responded by saying thank you, eid chiyeh agha? Ma eid o azamoon yekiyeh.  My uncle said eidet mobarak azat be doure.  He said khoda az dahanet beshnaveh peer shee.

Eid is a new day for everyone.  A day of hope.  Everyone can hope in this day even if it is for a moment.

How sweet and thoughtful words. After a very very long time.....

.........I can read some words in "IRANIAN" which are meaningsfull, have a real content and call for more solidarity among Iranians living in the diaspora. I can only give again the words written
by Midwesty on
20-Mar-2008
in "IRANIAN". I am not capable to produce such heartfull sentenvces primarily by my own.

عید همگی مبارک!

هرچند لطفا به یاد ایرانی ها یی هم باشید که در غربت هیچ کس رو ندارن تا بهم حتی یک عید مبارک خشک و خالی هم نثار کنن. به یاد اونهائی که عزیزی رو از دست دادن به اونهائی که مریض دارن یا مریض هستن به اونهائی که فقیرن ولی با سیلی صورتشون رو سرخ نگه می دارن. به اونهائی که همدم و مونس و رفیق ندارن به اونهائی که روز و شبشون هر دو تاریکه به اونهائی که خلوت امیدشون از دست رفته به اونهائی که ...تو خودحدیث مفصل بخوان از این مجمل. عیدتون مبارک!
Greeting

Saal e noe mobarak

Nowrooz Pirooz

Midwesty Jan:

Eidat Mobarak. Thank you for remembering all. Thank you for being kind and considerate all year round. Thank you for being you. Nowroozat Mobarak.

Happy Norooz to YOU

Happy Norooz, my cyber-gift to my very dear fellow iranians:
//youtube.com/watch?v=OojsLDYr7RY&mode=relate...

It may not be a perfect situation for some of us or even worse a very tough one: not having a good health, having old relatives with no help in Iran, being under finanncial pressure,...
However, it is Norooz: a NEW day. Beginning of spring when old nature once again comes alive.
Let's make a promise to ourselves that we will make 1387 a better year for ourselves and our family. We will touch the lives of dear ones with love and care. We will help one person that we do not know with an act of kindness.
Har Roozeton Norooz, Noroozeton Pirooz.

You are the sliver of blue

You are
the sliver of blue behind the grey
the yellow stripe on the crocus
the pungent plum tree blossoms
the insistent call of the plump chickadee
the arching green tulip leaves

Today,
I whisper prayers of gratitude
to Spring
as she awakens
and brings
you

For YOU and your compassionate heart, MIDWESTY. This is what Norooz is all about.

May we all have a blessed year where kindness and compassion become part of daily lives.

How sweet and thoughtful

What a nice posting Midwesty 

I wish you a very joyful, successful and peaceful year. Thanks for the reminder, we should be grateful for what we have no matter how little, and despite how lonely we may feel especially during this season.  

Majid khan

You would'nt imagine how embarrassed it makes me to say that mine is past the "white kapak" stage and graduated into a dark stinky mess... I am not kidding!!!

My sabzeh looks like it's 14th already and I was contemplating throwing it out tonight and starting a new batch to show off and brag at 13bedar  

IRANdokht

PS: if you learn how to make it,  please email me the instructions for next year! sooner or later I HAVE to learn how to make sabzeh...        

میم

یوسف گم گشته باز آید به کنعان غم مخور   کلبه احزان شود روزی گلستان غم مخور

ای دل غم دیده حالت به شود دل بد مکن    وین سر شوریده بازآید به سامان غم مخور

دور گردون گر دو روزی بر مراد ما نرفت   دائما یکسان نباشد حال دوران غم مخور

Ramin

Thanks! Hope to see prosperity for all.

علی اقا

علی جان یک فال زدم برات به حافظ بعد با خودم گفتم ولش شاید خوشش نیاد بعد یه دو دقیقه صبر کردم یه فال به مولانا زدم که مضمونش خیای نزدیک بود به حافظ...بفرما ... هر چه بادا باد:

ای دل آن دم که خراب از می گلگون باشی    بی زر و گنج به صد حشمت قارون باشی در مقامی که صدارت به فقیران بخشند   چشم دارم که به جاه از همه افزون باشی در ره منزل لیلی که خطرهاست در آن    شرط اول قدم آنست که مجنون باشی ...حافظ از فقر مکن ناله گر شعر این است     هیچ خوشدل نپسندد که تو محزون باشی

 نه ز بویم نه ز رنگم نه ز نامم نه ز ننگم    حذر از تیر خدنگم که خدایی است کمانم...نه می خام ستانم نه ز کس وام ستانم      نه دم و دام ستانم هله ای بخت جوانم ...عجب ای عشق چه جفتی چه غریبی چه شگفتی   چو دهانم بگرفتی به درون رفت بیانم چو به تبریز رسد جان سوی شمس الحق و دینم    همه اسرار سخن را به نهایت برسانم  

Ladies ? Iran dokht? Mona? Help please

My sabzeh starts "kapaking" close to the roots! and it's only Farvardin 1st!

The base is somewhat moist, so it's not lack of water... any suggestions?

I would like to keep it alive until 13 Bedar.

(It's a kinda white kapak).

Dear Mona,

Thanks! I am delighted for reminding me of thoes days. I wish the same for you and your loved ones.

Regards,

Az inkeh beh man tabrik

Az inkeh beh man tabrik gofti tashakor mikonam.
Ashkam hamintor jareest...
Delam mikhad hameh shad baashand... shayad keh
az naseem shadi keh az taraf oonha miad man o amsal-e man ham betoonim labkhandi bezanim... ashk ejazeh nemideh...

Midwesty, Happy Nawrouz

Nawrouzat Pirooz.

A good few of us have been in the category you mentioned at some stage in our lives So you are right it is good to remember the poor and the lonely.

Very thoughtful

How about those, who like me, are all of the above?!

Happy norooz to all iranians and Iranian.comers 

:-)

Ali P.

O Reformer...

... of hearts and minds, Director of day and night and Transformer of conditions, change ours to the best in accordance with Your will.

My dad would always chant these verses just prior to the tahvil,while we're all sitting around the sofreh...You're right it's hard not to think about them specially now during these moments...I have their pictures beside my haftseen...but so far away from them.

Midwesty, Happy Nawrouz...

To life,Health,Happiness,Prosperity,Joy,Love,Peace,..... for you,your loved ones,all my hamvatan and rest of the world,may all our hopes, and wishes come true in the New Year.

Regard,Mona