Last night we celebrated Chaharshanbeh Soori, the Wednesday Feast, which is celebrated on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year before Nowruz (Persian New Year).
We light bonfires to jump over, inviting light and health into the coming year. We eat good Persian food. We snack on a special sweet and salty trail mix to open up any knots our lives may have encountered throughout the past year.
In Iran neighborhoods celebrate together. Even throughout the past thirty years where the Iranian Regime has repeatedly outlawed the celebration of Chahrashanbeh Soori and "Public Gatherings" on this day, the always spirited Iranians pour out in their neighborhoods in the cold of the year, and old and young jump over fires and celebrate. They celebrate this ancient "Feast of Souls" as a way to honor their culture, and they celebrate as a small gesture of their joyful and loving nature despite the hard times they live in... to breathe light into their imposed darkness.
Around the world, us hyphenated Iranians, we celebrate in nostalgia, in gratitude for the richness the Persian culture has brought into our lives, and in love and friendship for all light loving people having to live in the dark...
In Good Health, Peace and Freedom, Cheers to All!
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