Monthly Archives: November 2005

Simple Gifts

By lessan | Published: November 12, 2005

Tonight we had a wonderful presentation by the Bahá’í World Centre choir, titled Simple Gifts: The hall was packed: The presentation started on time: It consisted of various performances, with both a sacred: and light hearted theme: They even brought the children on for one of the songs: But my favourite was the “Prayer for […]

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Ihtifál – Iranian art and culture

By lessan | Published: November 12, 2005

Last night we attended an Ihtifál in Persian (Farsi). The term “Ihtifál” means “gathering with a program”, and these events are organised regularly here with various topics. Emails are sent out to all the staff well in advance advertising the programme and venue. Here’s the invitation for last night’s programme: The programme consisted of musical performances by […]

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George Townshend

By lessan | Published: November 10, 2005

I just bought this book today – "The Mission of Bahá’u’lláh", by George Townshend. I had previously encountered some quotes from this book, in the compilations "To be a Father" and "To be a Mother", and I loved them.    Now, let’s see what is in this book!

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Lunch – chicken schnitzel

By lessan | Published: November 10, 2005

Having had a decent breakfast today, I got hungry really quickly so at 11am I had to eat a cookie. However, once I made it down for lunch I didn’t have that big an appetite. Anyway, first course was an "ash" (persian style soup): For the main course, I had two pieces of chicken schnitzel. I […]

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Breakfast – eggs and olives

By lessan | Published: November 10, 2005

I usually skip breakfast, but I recently heard that it’s actually good to eat breakfast so I think I’ll try that for a while. Starting today. Preparation: And eating it: I’m sure you noticed that the second picture has one less olive in it than the first.

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