6/20/2009

Iran

The tension between more than 70% of the Iranians who are under 30 years old and the so called "islamic" regime and its fanatic representatives raised over the past 30 years steadily but certainly. Those young people fought in loud silence for their rights. One could feel this tension and all I was waiting for was the last straw...No one expected this moment now. No one was prepared.

In several cities of Iran, the main streets are painted red with the blood of those innocents who were suffering since they were born - free spirits and their bodies the prisoners of an inhuman system.
Everyday students are beaten like dogs, shot and many died on the streets without any chance of surviving. Bodies disappear from the hospitals without even being identified by the staff. Parents are waiting at home, not knowing that they can wait forever. Cars are burning, people are crying, yelling, praying...And outside of Iran people are marching, asking for peace and for justice.

This regime is the one that caused the depression of more than 3 generations. Grandparents suffered, seeing their country being turned upside down to the worst. Parents were forced to leave a country that they loved. And thousands of children of the exile Iranians, the 3rd generation, do not know where they belong to anymore or where home is. They are foreigners in Iran and foreigners everywhere else leading to the confusion and partly loss of identity of a great culture. Those who didn´t left are bleeding today. Those who are outside are bleeding with them.

International phone calls made from Iran are not going through. Social networks on the internet were shut down several times. Even the international correspondants are repressed.

All I know is that this government won´t stop shooting. Stopping it, would mean to admit. Admitting would mean change. Change would mean a loss of power.
The people won´t stop marching and protesting, as with every single body that lost its life through the bloody hands of the government, peoples 30 year old anger turns to rage and their rage will lead to change.

Those young brave people, who are not afraid of loosing their lifes anymore, are the heroes of our generation and deserve international help and support.



6/10/2009

Art

Art is a strong magnet with infinite faces - always new and unpredictable. An Artist is a creator on his own, making use of his ability to bring his thoughts to a thick essence of life that is universal - a channel inviting to a new path. And although Art can be born in any form, we can call it by only one name. Just like the word Love - there are no synonyms for Art. One word that embraces it all. One word that says it all.
Children of Art are desirable magnets: admired, envied, observed - a source of energy, brave sensibility and a source of world understanding in a wordless language that will remain for many unseen, ignored, invisible or avoided.
Artists shine by creating their own sun, regardless what the sun might mean to most of us. And like vampires who crave blood, others will run towards them, tanning in an Artist sun, not realizing that they are standing in the shade...

4/07/2009

Rain



Sometimes when I walk in the heavy rain,
The only thing I can hold on to is my umbrella.




4/04/2009

Leuchtturm 2


Leuchtturm

Fuer Einen

Die Andern sind das weite Meer.
Du aber bist der Hafen.
So glaube mir: Kannst ruhig schlafen,
Ich steure immer wieder her.

Denn all die Stuerme, die mich trafen,
Sie liessen meine Segel leer.
Die Andern sind das bunte Meer,
Du aber bist der Hafen.

Du bist der Leuchtturm. Letztes Ziel.
Kannst Liebster, ruhig schlafen.
Die Andern...das ist Wellenspiel,

Du aber bist der Hafen.


by Mascha Kaleko (1907-1975)

3/26/2009

Mute

He was standing and holding her. Tight enough to give her the support she needed, loose enough to give her space to expand her grief to its fully extend and to let it go. She was wearing the body of a mature woman but its action was the one of a child; leaning on him, slightly bent towards him - almost curled under the heavy pain. Her eyes were closed tight, her eyebrows frowned, her mouth wide open. No tears were wetting her cheeks, no sound leaving her open mouth - pure, clean, simple silence was all there was.

And I looked at him - a wise serenity was lying on his face, like a soft curtain hanging perfectly down a window. He knew all too well that holding her was all he could do.

And when I looked at her again, her face reminded me that there is a pain that we can set free, that we can cry out into the world. And that there is an overwhelming pain that fills us entirely, that leaves no air to breathe. A vacuum created by pain that leaves us - mute.

2/28/2009

Gypsy

I am a gypsy, a wanderer, a traveller, a nomad.
My wish was to be rooted in life - my life is about rooting out.
I am an upside down tree, my roots in the sky, my crown bedded in the earth.
What makes me human is my stem.

I am a gypsy, a wanderer, a traveller, a nomad.
I am the daughter of a father who was the same.
I am the daughter of a mother who was not.
What I wish for seems unreachable, what I am is what I am.

Life is moving - and I swim.
Life is changing - and I swim.
Life gives and takes - and I still swim.
I do not drown -
Cause I am
A gypsy, a wanderer, a traveller, a nomad.



Thank you Carmen and Thank you Luka.

2/08/2009

Safar

Safar - Travel
by
Moein


Safar kardam ke az eshghed jodah sham
I travelled to apart from your love

Delam mikhast dige ashegh nabasham
My heart wanted me to not be in love anymore

Vali eshghet too ghalbam munde ey vay
But your love is still residing in my heart

Dele divunamo soozoonde ey vay
It burned my foolish heart

Dele divunamo soozoonde ey vay
It burned my foolish heart

Hanuzam ashegham
And I am still in love

Hanuzam ashegham
And I am still in love

Donya ye dardam
I am in the world of pain

Messe parvaneha doret migardam
Like butterflies I circle around you

Messe parvaneha doret migardam
Like butterflies I circle around you



Safar kardam ke az yadam beri didam nemishe
I travelled so that you leave my memory I realized it´s not working

Akhe eshghe ye ashegh ba nadidan kam nemishe
Because the love of a lover doesn´t get less by not seeing each other

Ghame dur az to mundan ye bi bal o param kard
Grief from being far away from you made me without wings and feathers

Naraft az yade man eshgh safar ashegtaram kard
Love didn´t leave my memory Travel made me more in love

Hannooz pishmargetam man bemiram ta namiri
I am still dying before you I shall die so that you don´t

Khosham ba khateratam ino az man nagiri
I am blissful with my memories Don´t take them away from me



Delam az abr o barun bejoz esme to nashnid
My heart , from clouds and rain , beside your name didn´t hear a thing

Too mahtabe shabuneh faghat tsheshmam to ra did
In the moonlight of the night my eyes only saw you

Nasho ba man gharibe messe namehrabunha
Don´t become a stranger with me like the unkind

Bala gardune tshashmat zamin o asemuna
Above heaven your eyes the earth and the skies



Mikham bargardam amma mitarsam
I want to come back but I am afraid

Mitarsam begi harfi nadari
I am afraid that you will say you have no words for me

Begi eshghi namunde
You will say there is no love left

Mitarsam beri tanham bezari
I am afraid that you might go and leave me alone



Hannooz pishmargetam man bemiram ta namiri
I am still dying before you I shall die so that you don´t

Khosham ba khateratam ino az man nagiri
I am blissful with my memories Don´t take them away from me



To ra didam tu barun dele darya to budi
I saw you in the rain You were the heart of the sea

To moje sabze sabzeh tane sahrah to budi
You were the dark green wave You were the body of the desert



Mage mishe nadidet too mahtabe shabuneh?
Is it possible he didn´t see you in the moonlight of the night?

Mage mishe nakhundet too shehre asheghune?
Is it possible he didn´t sing you the song of the lovers?



Mikham bargardam amma mitarsam
I want to come back but I am afraid

Mitarsam begi harfi nadari
I am afraid that you will say you have no words for me

Begi eshghi namunde
You will say there is no love left

Mitarsam beri tanham bezari
I am afraid you might go and leave me alone



Hannooz pishmargetam man bemiram ta namiri
I am still dying before you I shall die so that you don´t

Khosham ba khateratam ino az man nagiri
I am blissful with my memories Don´t take them away from me

Hannooz pishmargetam man bemiram ta namiri
I am still dying before you I shall die so that you don´t

Khosham ba khateratam ino az man nagiri
I am blissful with my memories Don´t take them away from me







2/02/2009

Peanut Butter

Peanut Butter used to be popular in the United States until January 2009 and rose to super stardom since then...Elected "Celebrity of the Year 2009" by my humble self, right after our new president Obama.

And while, from my point of view, this country is blessed with a gorgeous looking man in the white house, Peanut Butter never even made it close to my personal top 10 - Yes, i know and we all know that "the intrinsic values"... et cetera , et cetera. But whoever renounces the blank truth and reality that the first impression is not a sharp look straight into ones personality and soul, but rather a simple look at someones phyiscal appearance, is in denial - and Peanut Butter lacks the looks. And maybe, maybe we finally found out why PB looks the way it looks....

It is, in spite of its appearance, certainly one of Americans favorite foods: spread on bread, found in muffins and waffles, in oatmeal and pasta, soup and beef, ricecrackers and candy bars, cookies and even salad. Peanut Butter was part of the American Dream.

Salmonella and Peanut Butter not only had nothing in common, but put together are a so called "unhappy marriage". And there is a specific reason why. Food and shit just don´t go together - never.

Peanut Butter should contain by law a minimum of 90% peanuts, the remaining 10% usually consisting of natural sweeteners, a little bit of salt and some stabilizer to keep it fresh.

While Salmonella is a living bacteria housing in the intestinal tracts of infected animals or humans, passing from the feces to one another, causing disgust and diarrhea.

One of the nations largest proudct recalls are happening right now. No one dares to say it out loud, but : Americans were eating shit. And I think it would be only fair to know: Who shit in the Peanut Butter?