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 …

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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 …

The Divan of Hafez

I found a new Persian-English translation of Divan of Hafez in a bookstore. It is done by Ismaiel Salami. I'm happy for having this book because I intended to share posts about Hafez Ghazals on my blog for a while but I could not find a good translation for it. Translating Persian poetry to English …

My Tool-set for Writing, Publishing, and Promoting My Books – All Free And Open Source

During the process of drafting, editing, preparing for print, publishing, and marketing a book, many tools are necessary. Here I list all my tools, and a brief description of them and the reason I use them. Operating System: Ubuntu Studio You might heard about Linux (or GNU/Linux as open source philosophers prefer) and the world …

The Place You Live Should Not Be A Source Of Shame

When I was admitted to Shiraz University, one of the best universities in Iran, my father decided to buy me a desktop computer. Our village where my family lives is some 600km far from Shiraz. He came all this distance with a truck to buy me a computer and also a calf of good breed …