Delbar
Posted: 18 November 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Memories & Events, Uncategorized | Tags: delbar, music Leave a commentNothing and no one has given me as much “unconditional” joy, delight and love as Delbar did – for nine years. She ceased being last year. Yes, gone from our lives, but forever in our hearts .
http://www.youtube./watch?v=dFRworsIhW4
KIOSK “YAROM BIA” (Ft, Mohsen Namjoo), by MOSTAFA HERAVI 2009.
Musicians in Montreal’s metro
Posted: 13 November 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Photography, Poetry & Music, Uncategorized | Tags: metro_station, Montreal, music 2 CommentsMusicians in Montreal’s metro stations always cheer me up no matter what they play! “You are Everything” stayed with me all day after I listened to their wonderful performance of it.
Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye – You Are Everything (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8GiOgyMDs
My 100th post
Posted: 31 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Memories & Events, Poetry & Music, Uncategorized 4 Comments
This is my 100th post in four months. and I love commemorations! The experience has been absolutely rewarding and I intend to keep the blog up and running. This is probably a good time to thank all my friends in Friendfeed who have spent so much time helping me design my blog, figure out the WordPress, read and comment on my posts, and promote it in other forums. My family has encouraged me in numerous little and big ways to improve this. And of course it has been an amazing pleasure to receive comments and emails from people I do not even know (I have had only two junk messages out of some 200 – which is quite impressive!). It feels wonderful to watch the “likes” in my facebook page grow: I thank each and every 76 of you and do my very best to keep this blog worth visiting once in a while.
This oldie, out of my magic music box is for you: Let it be, The Beatles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEogJacjLTE
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Moment photography15
Posted: 27 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: moment_photography, Montreal_summer, Old port Leave a comment
Lonely Flutter
Ceumar, Dindinha
Posted: 26 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Poetry & Music, Uncategorized | Tags: music 2 Comments
Ceumar, Dindinha, from her >debut album. 1999. (she released four more the latest one being on 2010). Ceumar’s voice and music is so captivating one does not really need to know what she is saying in order to enjoy it! The translation below does not sound very accurate to me, but it is the only one I was able to find on the net, which gives some sense of the lyric nonetheless. “Divinhe”, by the way, apparently means ‘godmother’ in Portuguese.
Divinha o que primeiro/Vem amor ou vem dindim/Dindinha, dê dinheiro/Carinho e calor pra mim/Minha casa não tem porta /Minha horta não tem fruta /Quem me trata é moura torta Lingua morta quem te escuta/Meu tesouro é uma viola /Que a felicidade oculta/Se a vida não dá receita/Eu não vou pagar a consulta/Sob o céu azul me deito/Me deleito, me desnudo/Coração dentro do peito/Não foi feito pra ter tudo/A mentira é uma princesa Cuja beleza não gasta/E a verdade vive presa/No espelho da madrasta/Eu nasci remediado Criado solto no mundo/Se viver fosse reisado/Se eu me chamasse raimundo/Andorinha no inverno/beijo terno alma boa/Escrevi no meu caderno/não passei a vida à-toa
The culture of ellipsis
Posted: 19 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Inspired Writing, Uncategorized Leave a commentThe culture of ellipsis means you don’t finish what you want to say, it means instead of putting a verb in your sentence, you leave the reader up in the air.
The culture of ellipsis means you don’t speak your mind, that you don’t deliver your words, and that you assume yourself to be shrewd for doing so.
The culture of ellipsis is to quit; to surrender the space you are expected to fill, and to fail to shoulder the responsibility for your own ideas. Read the rest of this entry »
Beyond the sea
Posted: 13 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Poetry & Music, Uncategorized 2 Comments
“Oonvar e darya“, (beyond Sea) Beautiful music from Kiosk, and a few lines of the lyric
After each cry, there is a silence/Within each silence, there is a poem/Within each poem, each pain, there is a smile.
Heart of each smile is with the tears/And each tear holds another tale/Within each weep, each pain, there is a smile.
At the other side of sea, there is yet another shore, and behind this hill, another hill.
After each tomorrow, behind each redundancy, there is another ….
A Fall drive
Posted: 10 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Montreal related, Uncategorized | Tags: apple_bread, montreal_fall, nature, village 2 Comments
Today was thanksgiving and I had no idea how thankful I would be by the end of the day! It was a gorgeous sunny day. My husband and I drove to Oka Park, to the breath-taking autumn sceneries, stretched along both sides of the road almost all the way.
The pictures below are much more descriptive of the natural beauties than my words could possibly be. But there was one significant incident that my camera failed to capture! On our way back trough Saint Joseph au Lac, we were stuck in traffic (which we did not mind, as we were busy watching Halloween-decorated shops and freshly picked pumpkins and cheerful clusters of people) when I noticed a sign reading “pain aux pommes”. Read the rest of this entry »
The pleasure is ALLLLL mine!
Posted: 10 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Memories & Events, Uncategorized | Tags: friends, Persian_cuisine 2 Comments
When I cook and it turns out well, for the friends just ringing the bell,
when we sit ‘n’ start to laugh, over a glass or two and a half,
when I see their faces glow, with the sight of my adas polow,
When I hear their cheerful praise, for every item they delicately taste,
What can I say, but “it’s my pleasure!”, the joy I receive is beyond measure!
RIP Steve Jobs
Posted: 6 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Memories & Events, Uncategorized | Tags: Steve_Jobs Leave a comment
“Three Apples that changed the world: the one Eve ate, the one that fell on Newton’s head & the one that Steve built.”
Quoted from ariaclemente
My Caldron 