We feel safe and secure in our color’s circle, but let other colors join to form a more diverse palette

Each of us belongs to a colour, and feels safe and secure when we see us among our colour with a big circle of same-coloured people around us that makes a big circle with strict boundaries. I'm not talking only about skin colour, but anything that makes a group of people different from other groups. …

More intelligent species tend to be more obedient

As the intelligence of a species goes high, they tend to be more obedient. They usually live in groups and have some kind of social life. They have rules among them and a leader or boss to rule them. For example, look at gorillas and wolves. At the peak of this subject are humans. They …

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam – What is my guilt, my destination set like this

Another translation of a rubaie from Omar Khayyam. In this rubaie, Omar blames his fates and suggests that the heavens determine his destination from the very beginning: the day of creation. The original poem in Persian is like this: آنروز که توسن فلک زین کردند و آرایش مشتری و پروین کردند این بود نصیب ما …

Doing it in the old way worked better for me

I used to rely heavily on technology in my everyday work until a few months ago. For my writing, I always sat behind my desktop and typed the words in a document. For planning and scheduling, I used different applications. When I needed to create some artwork, I preferred using a computer design or drawing …

How I Find An Idea For a Poem

Poems usually come to mind accidentally based on your everyday experiences and emotions, but when I need to write a poem I try some tasks to come up with an Idea. Here I list some of these. I sit behind my desk. The first thing I do is some reading. Novels, poetry collections, history, classic …

My amateur work of art for June 2, 2019

Today I drew two drawings. The first one a copy of an image from pexels.com. I do this type of work as practice and use images from that site because they are free for any use based on their copyright. Color Pencil: Happy girl The second work is somehow conceptual drawing I produced for my …

As you get older time appears to go faster

In the first 18 years of life, time appeared to pass very slowly. We had a long childhood before going to school and 12 long years of school. My me it was half of my life till now, yet I always feel that that period in my life was much longer and days passed with …

Selecting a competent leader determines a nations’ fate

An administrator should administrate. This is obvious. The most important task of an administrator is to decide and choose the best option among several alternatives. For a president of a country and his administration, this is more critical. Their decisions have effects directly on their nation and on the world indirectly. The president of a …

Hafez: I suffered pain form a love, Don’t Ask How!

In a recent post, I have presented a Ghazal of Hafez and provided translations both from Herman Bicknell and form myself. However, I found out that I personally liked my own translation more (I'm not such an egotist ;D) which is simply put to words and easy to read and understand for nowadays reader. So, …

Hafez: If that Shirazi Turk …

One of the most beautiful ghazals of Hafez is this ghazal. In this post first comes the original poem and then its translation by Herman Bicknell. Finally I add my own translation of the ghazal. Original Persian Ghazal اگر آن ترک شیرازی به دست آرد دل ما را *** به خال هندویش بخشم سمرقند و …