Today is "Valentine's Day" ...
I don't know why Iranian girls & boys celebrate it these years, but whatever the reason is, it's beautiful, because it's about LOVE !
Coming home from work this evening, I was surfing the net and browsing "The New York Times" ...
I saw titles about "Valentine" and having a look at their pages, I found this beautiful poem relating to Valentine's Day which is written about LOVE:

Love:- What a Volume in a Word:
An Ocean in a Tear,
A Seventh Heaven in a Glance,
A Whirlwind in a Sigh
The Lightning in a Touch &
A Millennium in a Moment

_ Martin Farquhar Tupper

It's worth visiting its link; the texts are interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/02/14/opinion/14opchart.ready.html

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A realllllllly noble man ...
His death made everyone shocked !!!

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Among different works of art, I've always enjoyed music & theatre more than others, esp. because they are performed on the stage ...

In this way, one can see the process of creation of the art from the beginning to the end ... This usually doesn't happen for other works of art ... though it might be possible, it's rare ...

One usually doesn't see the process of a work of art from the beginning to the end: we don't feel like sitting beside an artist & see what she is drawing or sitting beside a novelist & share the experience of writing with her, we prefer seeing these works when they're complete, but it's not the same with music & theatre: we see these works from the beginning to the end & share the joy with the creators as well as the performers ...

During the creation of a painting or a novel, the creator is allowed to make any changes, but it's not possible when a play or a music concert is performed:the creator has created them & now there are the performers who with great talent, concentration & attention perform it ...

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This is "Hamid Aameli", the old famous story teller on the radio of Iran ...
He died of lung cancer the other day ...
He was one of our besttttttt family friends, so nice, kind, knowledgeable, and modest ...
His family, relatives and friends lost a really great man ...
Peace be upon him ...

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The news was so sad ... so shocking & sooooo painful ... Her assassination is by no means acceptable, never ... never ... never!

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The Wise Owl

A wise old owl
Sat in an oak.

The more he saw,
The less he spoke.

The less he spoke,
The more he heard.

Why can't we be like
That wise old bird?

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At present I'm reading "Gulliver's Travels" ... As everyone may know, being shipwrecked, Gulliver is thrown to a country called "Lilliput" the inhabitants of which are as small as his fingers ... The way the text is written, the English used, the spellings of words & the grammar is sometimes completely different from what we see today (first published in 1726)

Moreover; what happens to him & the way the small creatures in "Lilliput" behave towards him is interesting and sometimes soooooo funny that makes me laugh out loud ... After finding this monster (the small creatures call him " Man Mountain" ) & taking him to the emperor of "Lilliput" :" ... the emperor held frequent councils to debate what course should be taken with me ... and I was afterwards assured ... that the court was under many difficulties concerning me ... my diet would be very expensive and might cause a famine ... sometimes they determined to starve me or ... to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows ... but again they considered that the stench of so large a carcase might produce a plague in the metropolis ... and spread through the whole kingdom ... " ... " ... an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance ... " ... " ... it was ordered that three hundred taylors should make me a suit of cloaths ... six of his Majesty's greatest scholars should be employed to instruct me in their language ... "

While I was reading, enjoying and laughing, I was thinking about how Gulliver sees these creatures and how these creatures see him, for them everything is big, strong, strange, serious, frightening and important ... things that are so trivial, simple & funny ... I was thinking of the life of human, I imagined we were those creature :for us, our life & what we see,do and face may seem serious, important, sometimes strange, sometimes funny, sometimes so valuable and sometimes even full of meaning ... but if a "Gulliver" exists, how will he see our life ? Does a "Gulliver" really exist ? Of course I should wait to see what will happen at the end

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This is a photo of my GUITAR which I took the other day ... I've started learning & playing it ...

These days my mind is extremely occupied by the news of what is now happening in Iraq !

Everyday we hear on the news the death of at least 50 innocent people in Iraq along with heavy casualties ... about 100 ... this is the news & that's it for today ...

It's repeated again the next day & the day after next and continues, continues & continues ..., but nobady says what happens to the casualties, how many of them die & what happens to their families !!!

I think everyone thinks about these two questions: "Who is responsible?" and "What should be done?"

I usually read Noam Chomsky's weblog ...

In his recent entry he has written about Iraq ...

I left a comment through which I had a kind of debate on the issue of Iraq with someone from Norway who is keen on this weblog & leaves comments ...

In my comment I have said that I still don't know which situation in Iraq was better: Now or the time when Saddam was the ruler? I truly believe that the US, the UK ... are invaders and should leave Iraq one day, but I really don't know whether the situation will be better or worse if they quit, won't the Shiai & the Sunni kill each other more than they do now & won't another ruler like Saddam appear among them?

The guy from Norway believes that the occupiers should leave the country as fast as planes can take them out of it, he says " there should be put an Arab peacekeeping force in place, to reduce the risk of the civil war continuing ..."

In my opinion his idea of putting an Arab peacekeeping force after the occupiers leave is great, but I'm not still sure whether the Arabs will be peacekeeping or not ...

I don't think they know democracy & peace, as we see they just kill & kill & kill ... every day ...

Here there are some parts of what the guy from Norway has written as comments on Chomsky's entry on this issue,

" ... with the occupiers gone most of the terrorism will be reduced, as the occupation is fuelling the "civil war", then the US (and other occupiers) should issue a public apology for the crimes they have committed, and pay massive reparations for the damages and casualties caused ... the occupation and Saddam's rule have increased tensions between Shiites and Sunnis ... I don't, however, think the occupation is doing anything to reduce these tensions. Quite the opposite, the tensions are increasing (as we very clearly can see every day). I'm not aware of evidence of this (yet), but I won't be surprised at all if the US has been involved in blowing up holy sites to increase internal tension. The US are trying to fight the resistance, not the death squads.We know why we are there. It most certainly is not to spread democracy, freedom or anything of the sort. It's oil and spreading market fundamentalism ... the West are now responsible for killing more than a million people in Iraq over the last 15 years. It's about time we leave them alone ..."

Anyway, whoever being responsible, I haven't found an answer for my next question, "What should be done now ?" and I don't think any person, government or organization is able to find a way to stop this catasrophe & put an end to it !!!

This is the link of Noam Chomsky's weblog,

http://blog.zmag.org/ttt

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