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March 15, 2005
Peanuts, Lions, and winter
One of my clients came in this morning, she had purchased a few Antique rugs from me, and I knew that her father was sick. She came in and told me her father had passed away, but she had to thank me for giving him some of the last pleasures in his life. I was confused, then she explained. You see the day they purchsed their rugs, I had just bought a big Jar of Peanuts from next door, and offered them some, they liked the taste so I forced them to take the whole thing. It seems they enjoyed it so much, she bought her father a new Jar, since she was aware of her father's love for Peanuts. Any way her father got to eat a few of them every day, and told her there were the best he ever had, the jar was all finished a day before he passed away. So she was kind enough to come back to me and thank me for sharing my Peanuts
Well the tempreture here is around 45 F, so the spring seems to be around the corner, and our new years eve, is on Saturday March,19th,
we are going to the party that is held by the Iranian Community here.
Every year, right before the NOUROZ(our new years eve), I go out by myself, and By new clothing for my kids, and as extreme as I am in every thing I do go over board, specially for Kiana. This year the kids asked if we could go shopping together , so Thursday, four of us will go shopping, it should be fun. It is a custom for us to get new clothing for Nourouz, I remember, a few month befor Nouroz, My mother would take us to the Bazar,where we would choose Fabrics, and then we go to the Family Taylor, and he would make the three of us, me and my brothers new siuts. we had to go back to him a few times to try out the suits at different parts of their making, and then on the night before Nouroz, My father would come home, with our new suits. and we wear them when we went to visit the familly. During NOUROZ Kids would get twelve days of vacation, and our parents would take us to see all our family, one by one, and then they would come to visit at our house. There was a custom( it still is), that the kids would get EIDEE, which was cash gifts, from aunts and uncles, and grandparents, and we could spend them on going to Movies, and parks, and buying snacks. at the moment when the year changed we would all get together around HAFT SEENS, customery set of seven difinite things that started with S, like Sonbol flowers,(jasmines), SiB(apples), Samano( special thick sauce), Sekeh(coins), Senjed(special dry fruit) plus mirror, boiled colored eggs, and Gold Fish. My father would read Quran, and we try to behave listening to him, and then the radio or later on the TV would announce the changing of the year, we hug and kiss, and congradulate each other, since the three of us brothers were always fighting, usually we had to make peace reluctantly. and then we were off to see the Grandparents first. the promise of family gatherings and new clothes, and the Eidee was so joyes to all of us. Those were very special days.
Lion in the Winter, was a play that first went on stage in London, and then had a Broadway run, they made it to a Movie, with PETER O'TOOLE, playing Henry, and KATE HEPBURN, playing Elenore. It's a fantastic movie, that brought Mrs, Hepburn her third Oscar, and got great reviews. The story of Henry, and old King at Fourty Five, trying to find a succesor amongst his sons, and Elenore her Queen who was exiled to The Tower of London, only allowed to pay yearly visits, and their sons. The acting is better than you can imagine, and the Dialouges, specially in the scenes between Henry and Elenore are fantastick, I higly recomend renting and watching it. It did hit close to me since some times ago Three of us brothers were partners with our dad, and the manovering of each of the Princes in the movie
for power, seemed so real.
Posted by Idinraha at March 15, 2005 10:44 AM
Comments
You touched me...I loved Norouz and going to bazaar to buy new shoes and clothes. I also remember the taylor. Mom used to take all four of us to the same Taylor for suits. The only difference was that my fabric had flower prints. She denies it but I have pictures to proof! Well lets hope for peace...I always pray for it.
Posted by: Maryam at March 15, 2005 06:10 PM
Is it possible that the peanuts killed him?!!!! That's another way of looking at it!! Sorry for being viscious....
Posted by: Maryam at March 15, 2005 06:11 PM