Long Weekend

-We had a nice 3 days weekend because it was President Day holiday on Monday. The weather was so nice in Southern California. About 25 C! When I saw news weather about east coast with all the snow and trouble I truly thanked god for leaving in this part of the world! We took kids to the beach yesterday but there were big waves so I did not let them play on sands, just in play grounds next to the beach.

-I have finished a very important piece of our ongoing project last week and it was successful, hopefully I can be successful for the rest of it too. I know it will be challenging like this one but at least I am more confident now. I remember how nervous I was last year about this time for this project! Time really heals things.

-My Mom brought me some good books from Iran, some of them Persian stories some are translated to Farsi. I just finished one, which is original written in French and was translated to Farsi. The translation for the Farsi title is The tears of the Clown. The book is half fiction have non -fiction and is a story about one French kings, his too much appetite for being with different women and things that happened in his palace between him, his palace crew and a group of rebellions of Paris towards the end of his life. The writer whom I have read books from before. He writes his stories with lots of excitement and adventures. He covers lots of different details and his books have so many characters in them! The name of the writer is Michel Zevaco. Any way there is a part in the book that a very powerful priest, uses the king to kill a very open minded writer that he did not like and he was scared of the impact that his books could have on people. He made the king to write the order to arrest the innocent writer and they executed him in the fire!! I think the story of the book is about at least 300 years ago! But When I was reading that part of the book I thought to myself god, this is what is happening today in Iran and some countries, they execute people just because they afraid that what they say or write can make their power more fragile! That is a pity that what happened more than 200 or 300 hundred years ago in for example France and made its people to protest against the dictatorship and formed a revolution is still happening now in 21st century in some counties!! Unfortunately dictators do not read history books, if they read even the fiction ones they can get some good lessons from them!!