Afghan Dinner At St. Christopher's

 It has been a long time since I have posted. It is time I start again. I will post regularly but I will first try to do some catching up over the past few pandemic years.

My friend Janet and I went to St. Christopher's for a dinner prepared by an Afghan woman who had to flee Afghanistan when the Taliban took over her country. We heard her tragic story. The food she lovingly prepared for us was delicious, of course! A very nice evening.

Janet

A.J. and Janet            

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

 

The summer before I left for Wells, my mother started taking painting lessons. One day she told me that she wanted to paint something for me to take with me for my dorm room. She asked what my favorite verse of poetry was and I told her that it was the 12th quatrain from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: 

A book of Verses underneath the Bough,

A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou

Beside me singing in the Wilderness -

Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!