The Weekender // 020
Happy Persian New Year!
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Not just Happy Saturday, but Happy Spring! Yesterday I celebrated Persian New Year, which feels different and confusing this year in a way I’ve not yet metabolized.
I am really feeling some type of way this year, with everything happening in (and to) Iran. There are moments I’ll be doing something mundane— eating lunch, doing a task at work— and I remember what is happening in/to Iran and I feel insane for going about business as usual. (Levity, lol.) Same as when I hear the phrase “the war in Iran”— my brain doesn’t want to compute. And to get even m…