The Persian new year celebration Nowruz (New Day), which falls on the first day of Spring, is just around the corner.
I always feel like my five year old self around this time of the year. There was always so much excitement all around, on the streets, in every home. Everyone was busy cleaning, buying new clothes, worrying about their plates of sprouted wheat or lentil sprouting properly, feverishly baking hundreds of tiny, rose watery, cardamomy Persian cookies or fretting about placing orders with the best bakers in town, ordering Fresh bills from the bank for gifting to kids at New Year...
I have always really connected to all celebrations of humanity and cultures... I adore Christmas and Chinese New Year and Easter and Diwali... but Nowruz is the first celebration I have come to know as a person. It was my first experience with a collective celebration of Joy where for a time each year everyone became One.
As you know I am hooked on Pinterest. This morning I created a collage for Persian New Year to share with my UrbanToddler. In making it I got plenty of inspiration for myself too. Feel free to visit it: UrbanGirl's Persian New Year Collage.
Enjoy these last days of Winter.... I am off to do my Spring cleaning.
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