O.K. Sitting here thinking about this "end-of-the world" stuff, I am ashamed to admit that I haven't been paying any attention to why and when and how the world is supposed to end in a few hours! I've been too busy with "planning" and "implementing" the party to worry about its "ending!"
I do know that it is Yalda, the longest night of the year, and this gives me joy, warmth, and hope, in contrast to what the "end-of-the-world" notion would offer. I can't wait for this night to give birth to spring, the way I have come to process the seasons and time throughout my life.
Just to be on the safe side, however, I did tell my kids tonight that if it's all true and that this is it, it was a true pleasure knowing them and introducing them to everyone else at the party!
It may all be futile, but indulge me to say that I have enjoyed my life to the fullest, cried the saltiest and wettest tears in he world, and laughed the loudest and deepest laughs I have ever known. I have hugged the tightest embraces and kissed the deepest kisses and worked the hardest I could, clapped and beshkan-ed the most vigorously and danced like nobody's business, and this is all I ever knew about life and how to live it! I am certain that I have enjoyed my life to its fullest and that I have squeezed its every corner for its very best essence.
O.K. Will it be time to go in a few hours? No problem! Khosh gozasht. Hey, it was one hell of a good party!
Ditto.
Great one, Nazy jon.
Nazy dear,
I am afraid that we are not that lucky ... to go away in a big bang tonight!
Wish you and yours a great time and a joyous party, to mark the rebirth of daylight (Yalda) and the birthday of goodness (Mithra).
Thank you all for your kind comments! Slowly it's feeling like home around here again!
Mehr,