a radio station is playing all the right songs right now... so much so... that i stopped my work and instantly logged on to write that... this is also life in armenia... the fact that i can turn on the radio and listen to music that speaks to my soul... that has hints of my people's past, present and future.
ahhh... thanks to a reader who tipped off his father (a world famous structural engineer) i will have my yard checked out today... a first step and a good one. thanks.
other than this, thank you to my friends and family who have been sending letters of support... or just making me smile.
in four days we will commemorate the genocide. i am about to go and order the flowers that our collective of work friends will take with us to the memorial. it is almost weird to say, but i am looking forward to seeing my people collected... as one power... with one cause. all this seperation... all these views... it makes me so nervous. it is the only light at the end of a horrible tunnel... that in four days, i will feel the power of a unified nation. i wish we could carry this in to our love for armenia...
one of the security guards at work just came to see me. he has come to see me before... once he brought me a painting he had painted... once he brought a comic series, which he had done, (i include one in every monthly employee newsletter)... and now he brought us a song that he wrote... wanting to give the melody as a gift to arthur. he said... he wanted the song to be about me... because he thought i was a nice person. this meant the world to me.
there are a lot of things in my life which are very unstable these days... these last few weeks especially. but the amount of support and friendship and love (from my family and husband) that i have received... make it all ok... and makes all the instability feel like a roller coaster ride that is life that we must take and that we must go through...
i read an interesting quote from a former british ambassador... which said something like this. for a long time people have been saying that "this is a time of transition", adam must have said it to even upon leaving the garden of eden...
it is true... it will always be a time of transition. we can only pray that the transition we see for armenia... does not include the blood and violence of last week.
ahhh... thanks to a reader who tipped off his father (a world famous structural engineer) i will have my yard checked out today... a first step and a good one. thanks.
other than this, thank you to my friends and family who have been sending letters of support... or just making me smile.
in four days we will commemorate the genocide. i am about to go and order the flowers that our collective of work friends will take with us to the memorial. it is almost weird to say, but i am looking forward to seeing my people collected... as one power... with one cause. all this seperation... all these views... it makes me so nervous. it is the only light at the end of a horrible tunnel... that in four days, i will feel the power of a unified nation. i wish we could carry this in to our love for armenia...
one of the security guards at work just came to see me. he has come to see me before... once he brought me a painting he had painted... once he brought a comic series, which he had done, (i include one in every monthly employee newsletter)... and now he brought us a song that he wrote... wanting to give the melody as a gift to arthur. he said... he wanted the song to be about me... because he thought i was a nice person. this meant the world to me.
there are a lot of things in my life which are very unstable these days... these last few weeks especially. but the amount of support and friendship and love (from my family and husband) that i have received... make it all ok... and makes all the instability feel like a roller coaster ride that is life that we must take and that we must go through...
i read an interesting quote from a former british ambassador... which said something like this. for a long time people have been saying that "this is a time of transition", adam must have said it to even upon leaving the garden of eden...
it is true... it will always be a time of transition. we can only pray that the transition we see for armenia... does not include the blood and violence of last week.
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