Comments on: My Fire and My Light http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Sarmad http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19509 Sarmad Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:46:06 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19509 Ayyam-i-Ha, Day 1: pure blue sky. I drove through the landscape and played medieval music from Andalusia. I went to Buttercup's house and ate a mousse. Later there was a mass-produced pizza and some popular culture. Ayyam-i-Ha, Day 2: Heavy rain, but not unpleasant. In my dreams, particularly in the months prior to full conversion, water always symbolised divine revelation. It also gives sustenance to song birds and growth to my new escallonia hedge. Ayyam-i-Ha, Day 1: pure blue sky. I drove through the landscape and played medieval music from Andalusia. I went to Buttercup’s house and ate a mousse. Later there was a mass-produced pizza and some popular culture.

Ayyam-i-Ha, Day 2: Heavy rain, but not unpleasant. In my dreams, particularly in the months prior to full conversion, water always symbolised divine revelation. It also gives sustenance to song birds and growth to my new escallonia hedge.

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19512 Saleem Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:20:31 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19512 Ayyam-i-Ha, day 1: midnight, as the day ended, I sat at the front and top of the bus home from Oxford. I listened to mystical music and watched the dark country reveal itself before headlights, and I accounted for my day: its lessons, joys, and my failures within. Ayyam-i-Ha, day 2: Mozart and readings, work, nothing exceptional yet. No, how can I say that: Mozart, work. Wonderful things. Ayyam-i-Ha, day 1: midnight, as the day ended, I sat at the front and top of the bus home from Oxford. I listened to mystical music and watched the dark country reveal itself before headlights, and I accounted for my day: its lessons, joys, and my failures within.

Ayyam-i-Ha, day 2: Mozart and readings, work, nothing exceptional yet. No, how can I say that: Mozart, work. Wonderful things.

]]> By: Original Sin http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19513 Original Sin Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:06:40 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19513 Ayyam-i-Ha is a calendar abnormality which will create a headache for anybody wishing to create a system based on the baha'i calendar. Do you treat it as an independent month? How do you refer to it in shorthand? Do the different days have names? Argh! /starts pulling his hair Ayyam-i-Ha is a calendar abnormality which will create a headache for anybody wishing to create a system based on the baha’i calendar.

Do you treat it as an independent month? How do you refer to it in shorthand? Do the different days have names? Argh!

/starts pulling his hair

]]> By: Sanisha http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19515 Sanisha Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:09:03 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19515 Ayyam-i-Ha day 1: I spent the day with friends & family, then I tidied up and re-arranged things, which lifted my spirits and cleansed my thoughts...then I went grocery shopping because Ayyami-i-Ha is usually about feasts and celebration. Ayyam-i-Ha day 2:Most of today I was outside surveying an erf nearby, the weather is good, the sky is clear and I have enjoyed some of the fresh figs & carrot cake that I bought yesterday. Ayyam-i-Ha day 1: I spent the day with friends & family, then I tidied up and re-arranged things, which lifted my spirits and cleansed my thoughts…then I went grocery shopping because Ayyami-i-Ha is usually about feasts and celebration.

Ayyam-i-Ha day 2:Most of today I was outside surveying an erf nearby, the weather is good, the sky is clear and I have enjoyed some of the fresh figs & carrot cake that I bought yesterday.

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19518 Saleem Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:39:32 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19518 OS, what's the big deal? It's not a month. Call it AiH for short, if you must. Or ID. Do the days have names? No, numbers. What's so hard about that? Don't pull too hard, it's already leaving. OS, what’s the big deal? It’s not a month. Call it AiH for short, if you must. Or ID. Do the days have names? No, numbers. What’s so hard about that?

Don’t pull too hard, it’s already leaving.

]]> By: Sarmad http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19520 Sarmad Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:54:48 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19520 I suspect that the days still have names. For instance my widget lists today as Fidal, 2 Ayyam-i-Ha, 163 Went for a long lunch with wife. Walked in the demesne and ate 4 sandwiches made with houmous and cherry tomatoes. The clouds cleared away and I looked at several squirrels and some crocuses/croci. I suspect that the days still have names. For instance my widget lists today as Fidal, 2 Ayyam-i-Ha, 163

Went for a long lunch with wife. Walked in the demesne and ate 4 sandwiches made with houmous and cherry tomatoes. The clouds cleared away and I looked at several squirrels and some crocuses/croci.

]]> By: Mogogo http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19523 Mogogo Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:04:12 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19523 In these days outside time I find myself today, the second day outside time, with a long list of tasks given me to perform. I have completed half (the easier half) and have elegantly wasted the rest of the day. Every year as i approach this period I desperately yearn for the rigour and discipline of the fast. In these days outside time I find myself today, the second day outside time, with a long list of tasks given me to perform. I have completed half (the easier half) and have elegantly wasted the rest of the day.

Every year as i approach this period I desperately yearn for the rigour and discipline of the fast.

]]> By: Sarmad http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19526 Sarmad Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:40:25 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19526 Day 2: 1837 hours. I am dining on a toasted Bovril sandwich. In the summer I found out that Bovril had become vegetarian during the mad-cow incideent. For years I had eaten Marmite in ignorance. As soon as I found out I purchased several jars and smeared the stuff on bread. It stimulated intense nostalgia for the childish salad days of meat-eating. And then Bovril announced they are using beef again!! But some of the jars from last summer are still extant. Again, the nostalgia. Toddlers, they don't have a thing to do, except running about. "Now is not the time to read and write. Now is the time for running about." And after that it was all downhill, poor chap. Day 2: 1837 hours. I am dining on a toasted Bovril sandwich. In the summer I found out that Bovril had become vegetarian during the mad-cow incideent. For years I had eaten Marmite in ignorance. As soon as I found out I purchased several jars and smeared the stuff on bread. It stimulated intense nostalgia for the childish salad days of meat-eating. And then Bovril announced they are using beef again!! But some of the jars from last summer are still extant. Again, the nostalgia. Toddlers, they don’t have a thing to do, except running about. “Now is not the time to read and write. Now is the time for running about.” And after that it was all downhill, poor chap.

]]> By: Marshn http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19528 Marshn Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:24:44 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19528 Day 1: My first Ayyam-i-Ha day started on a train back from the Croatia winter school (I loved it, it was full of spirit and art). It continued with an Ayyam-i-Ha party I held at a friends place. Day 2: Work, work work Day 3: Making gifts for friends weather: cloudy, some rain, the spring flowers are out Day 1: My first Ayyam-i-Ha day started on a train back from the Croatia winter school (I loved it, it was full of spirit and art). It continued with an Ayyam-i-Ha party I held at a friends place.
Day 2: Work, work work
Day 3: Making gifts for friends
weather: cloudy, some rain, the spring flowers are out

]]> By: Sanisha http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19539 Sanisha Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:12:26 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19539 Sina, what did you do during Ayyam-i-Ha ? Sina, what did you do during Ayyam-i-Ha ?

]]> By: prema http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19543 prema Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:05:51 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19543 "The days outside of time" is what I remember this period being referred to, as Baha'u'llah tells us that "they have not been bounded by the limits of the year and its months" (Aqdas). The highlight of celebrating AiH in Forest Grove OR has to be the inTurkeylary day celebration - everything you'd expect in a Thanksgiving menu served up. Pies galore. “The days outside of time” is what I remember this period being referred to, as Baha’u'llah tells us that “they have not been bounded by the limits of the year and its months” (Aqdas).

The highlight of celebrating AiH in Forest Grove OR has to be the inTurkeylary day celebration - everything you’d expect in a Thanksgiving menu served up. Pies galore.

]]> By: Mandel Cola http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19592 Mandel Cola Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:35:20 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19592 I suggest the Neocrats remember to engage in a deeper investigation of the benefits of the new Badi calendar sometime soon. It's a fascinating topic. I suggest the Neocrats remember to engage in a deeper investigation of the benefits of the new Badi calendar sometime soon. It’s a fascinating topic.

]]> By: nemoDreamer http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19595 nemoDreamer Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:52:03 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/27/my-fire-and-my-light/#comment-19595 A beautiful post... Thank you... A beautiful post… Thank you…

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