A few days ago a UN official released a statement expressing concern about recent actions taken by the Iranian government against the Baha'is in Iran. Apparently a confidential letter was sent by a top Iranian military official to the Iranian police and other government forces telling them to identify people in Iran who follow the Baha'i Faith and ( Read more... )

I was accepted for the job at the Baha'i National Center. I'm moving out there the first week of April.

I'm making a last-minute trip to the Midwest to look at Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin. Both are about two hours from Chicago, so I'm flying into Chicago on Thursday, renting a car, and driving down to Purdue for their open house, spending the weekend in Chicago, driving up to Madison, Wisconsin on Monday, and then flying back ( Read more... )

This afternoon I will be heading up to Stamford, Connecticut for the Northeastern Baha'i Youth Festival (otherwise known as NEBY Fest). That lasts until Monday, at which point I will drive directly to Newark Airport and fly to Chicago for an interview on Tuesday for a job at the Baha'i National Center. Tuesday evening I fly back to Newark, and then ( Read more... )

My trip to Chicago (to interview for a position at the Baha'i National Center) has been postponed for a couple of weeks because I was sick and had a fever. This coming Saturday is my last day of working at Barnes & Noble. My plan is to move completely up to the Berkshires in a few weeks.

I am now in Great Barrington two days a week. I have a freelance job in Hillsdale, NY with an Internet software company. At the moment my working days are Monday and Tuesday, so I arrive Sunday evening and drive home to New Jersey from work Tuesday evening. I'm still working three days a week at Barnes & Noble for now.

Barreling down some often-traveled road, I see ( Read more... )

My voice is back, and I seem to have mostly recovered from whatever was afflicting me. On Monday I have orientation for a seasonal job at a bookstore; meanwhile I've been working on applications for graduate school. The universities I'm applying to for speech pathology programs as of now are ( Read more... )

When a thought of war comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love. Thoughts of war bring destruction to all harmony, well-being, restfulness and content.

Thoughts of love are constructive of brotherhood, peace, friendship, and happiness.

-- Abdu'l-Baha, Paris Talks, p.

Tomorrow I will be returning to the States. I just changed the ticket this morning. The past week and a half has been strange and unexpected. The weekend before last what I had taken for an ordinary hoarse throat began developing into something more serious. By last weekend I could hardly talk apart from forcing out a few occasional words, ( Read more... )