Hope Amid Corona Virus (COVID19) Chaos + Video

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2020 is taking a bit of a nosedive, no? So let’s celebrate the new year again! My husband was born in Iran, where it’s Nowrooz, a non-religious holiday. Here we are with our Persian New Year’s setting…

Here we are with our Persian New Year’s setting.

Spring and new years are laden with blossoms of promise. Regardless of what occurs outside ourselves, they’re opportunities to release our pasts and do what we can to foster good times ahead.

In addition to Iran, other countries participate in Persian New Year (aka Nowrooz, which is spelled many ways due to varying phonetic translations). The list includes Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India, and Albania. Even Japan celebrates a version of Nowruz!

Here’s a speech about Persian New Year I performed as a member of Toastmasters…

My wish for you, dear reader, that the future brings only the best to you and your loved ones.

 

More on the current crisis here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here.

How do you cultivate hope and celebration during uncertain times?

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Happiness Between Tails speaks to and from the heart. It connects lovers — of pets, authors, books — and of my still-unreleased novels, “Flamenco + the Sitting Cat” and “Tango + the Sitting Cat.” The stories are my love letters to all who fear they're too odd, too damaged, too old, too whatever to find happiness. ContactdaAL@gmail.com • BuyMeACoffee.com/SupportHBT

93 thoughts on “Hope Amid Corona Virus (COVID19) Chaos + Video”

  1. When I lived in Egypt, they celebrated a similar spring festival – Sham el-Nessim. It is celebrated by both Coptic Christians and Muslims. Happy Nowrooz! It is a beautiful photo of you and your husband.

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  2. What I find really interesting is that it’s around the same hebrew date of the jewish holiday of purim, which celebrates what happened in – Persia, on that (hebrew) date. Random.

    Love, light, and glitter

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  3. Thank you so much for your lovely explanation on Navruz and Happy Navruz to you and your family, da-AL. Even my husband is an Iranian but we live in India and since his mother was born and brought up in Iran we too lay the table every year and celebrate this lovely season.

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  4. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and lovely video!.. hope all is well with you and your family, friends, etc, each and every day is filled with love and happiness and life is all that you wish for it to be!.. 🙂

    Until we meet again..
    May flowers always line your path
    and sunshine light your way,
    May songbirds serenade your
    every step along the way,
    May a rainbow run beside you
    in a sky that’s always blue,
    And may happiness fill your heart
    each day your whole life through.
    May the sun shine all day long
    Everything go right, nothing go wrong
    May those you love bring love back to you
    And may all the wishes you wish come true
    (Irish Saying)

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