Kheyli Merci

Last month a friend of mine told me that he was going to send me some music CDs from Iran. Yesterday the parcel arrived. On my way out I picked up the parcel from the post office. I opened it on the metro. There was a Persian calendar, a cute scarf, a card, and an iPod. He had uploaded the music on an iPod. It was my graduation gift. The first graduation gift I’ve received since my graduation. I wore the headphone, hit the play, got off the train, found a park. I lie down on the grass in the beautiful weather and watched the trees, the squirrels, the birds, the sky, and thought to myself: Beaucoup de mes amis sont venus des nuages …