Was it my imagination or did she look relieved? I think she looked like she finally knew what was staring her in the eyes, and the not-knowing, the hoping, the struggle, had finally come to an end, and at least she knew what she was seeing. My friend at work says her husband finally told her yesterday that he wants a divorce. I felt lighter and better than I had in a long time, hoping not to have a relapse tomorrow. I am hoping to be finally coming out of the sickness and fatigue which has slowed me down for a few days now. I had such a happy, energetic day, accomplishing things at work and thinking good thoughts. It rained and rained and rained today, but the dreary weather and the miserable cold could do nothing to bring my spirits down. Photo By Ben Bagheri, Two Weeks in Iran,, January 2008. I will go rest some and come back later to work on my dance story, post my final installment of Khosrow and Shirin on Iranian, and reply to your kind comments. I told him that I'm going through just such stage in my life with my children, and I can assure him that a lot of joy and satisfaction will await him then. He said to me that sometimes the thing that keeps him going is the hope that 20 years from now, one day he would find out that their decisions and actions would have mattered and would have been effective in those children's lives. I thought to myself that to find role models in our lifetime, sometimes all we have to do is walk over to the cubicle down the hall. Can you imagine the immensity and importance of what they have done? Just like any doting father, he reached in his wallet and showed me his kids' school pictures and told me about the challenges of raising them, going from having no children one day to having three the next.
I got a chance today to go visit him in his cubicle, asking after the boys and how they are doing. My friend John and his partner adopted three orphaned brothers last year. Honestly, I don't know how successful I was! Right about now it's all a moot point, don't you think? I want to thank those of you who noticed my absence and kindly wrote to find out what happened to me last night. All day today I sleep walked, suppressing yawns and fighting stupidity, a common side effect of sleep deprivation for me. I didn't get a chance to write a post or do anything else, going to bed at 4:00 a.m. So, I got caught up in a social gathering last night, coming home really late, and having to deliver on a promise I had made my friend to do something for him.
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