I will meet You when ( Read more... )

Are you my mommy? She asks me with a big smile, leaning against me and resting her chin on my stomach. This is the third time she has asked me. The first time was months ago. You already have a mommy, I say smiling back. No I don’t she says, continuing to smile. I wanted to say well, I’m sure you have a mommy somewhere.. but I said who takes care ( Read more... )

Someone wise once said “money is a funny thing.”  I’ve found it to be true, especially today. I’m always trying to both save it and to not spend, which seem like they are the same thing, but they’re essentially different. Sometimes I find myself feeling like someone is doing something wrong when they spend money on things that I don’t think they ( Read more... )

Mientras lagrimas vienen

Llenando mis ojos lentamente

Me da cuenta de que la empatía es el opuesto de la envidia

Como la refleja de una mano.

Ahorita vengo de una reflección sin vida

Por un espejo de apatía

Y llego aquí

Con lagrimas que al principio

No están acompañadas por sentimientos

Que raro es el sentimiento de

Sentir sin ( Read more... )

Sometimes I hear the earth breathing ( Read more... )

Some people are so open.. I love it when people have such open hearts. My Ame Fakhri (Aunt Fakhri) has a spiritual heart that is very open and a physical heart that is very near the end of its life. The most vivid mental image i have of her is of her in her chador (she's Muslim) and of her crying. When we would come to Iran, she'd be so happy she ( Read more... )

recent thoughts ( Read more... )

When the world is full ( Read more... )

No walls no bars ( Read more... )

The standard line to use is "well, now they're in a better place." They're actually not. They're not in any place, and that's precisely what makes it better. it is Utopia (no place). Elias is nowhere now.. nowhere physical anyway... and the fact that he's not attached to his physical body makes it a better Utopia that he's in.. or rather that he's ( Read more... )