not a picture of Sara, just a cool picture My Iranian friend Sara asked me to guest post on her blog. I actually squealed with joy when she asked. The post is up, and I encourage everyone to visit Sara.
LINKY TO SARA.
A note: regulars to this blog may find my style a bit different on the guest post. I'm no sure how well snark translates, and I'm not out to start an international incident.
that was beautiful - two parts struck me the most. the seeing of the woman who could be your sister - i have run into this phenomena in almost every "ethnicity", cuz we're all a hodge-podge and people should *remember* that in the US, a country built OF that hodge-podge.
ReplyDeleteand your descriptor of Dawn - almost as loving as Homer, that was. just... poetic.
is that actually posted solely in English, or is it Arabic translated, or an Arabic translation offered, or what? i have had people transcribe passages of the Quo'ran for me (i have an Arabic-English version, but it never seems quite, well, right, in the English copy). people say that Spanish is so lyrical that a soap commercial sounds like a love-song; in my experience of Arabic-that-has-been-properly-translated, Arabic lends itself a whole nother level of lyricism...
My uncle looks like Chatami ;)
ReplyDeleteYou're right about Farsi and Arabic- they both have a songlike quality to them, and the structure of Arabic (I don't know about Farsi) lends itself to poetic turns of phrase while ordering a bean burrito.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
i calls 'em like i see 'em :D
ReplyDeletemy computer is damned near dead, and shuts of every 5 minutes or so - i am just now reading this, and i don't think i will be able to comment for a while. i'm on Pete's computer at the moment - not meaning to be Anon, but i guess Anon.
so, this si Denelian :)