Stacy Horn

Everyone is understandably talking about Neda Agha Sultan, the Iranian woman who was shot to death during the recent protests, but Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a former vice president of Iran, who was on the Daily Show on Monday night, really got to me.  He was just so sweet and dignified and generous of spirit, and his son … actually I’m reading his bio and he says he has three daughters. Maybe that was a son-in-law?

Anyway, Mohammad Ali Abtahi was arrested on June 16th.  If you see the interview he’s just so gentle and manages to remain poised and kind while Jason Jones does his Jason Jones/Daily Show thing.  It’s horrible to think that someone so gentle has been arrested and, as someone said, based on the arrests during the last large protest in Iran, things do not go well for people who are arrested during protests in Iran.

And one bird.  I’m describing something for this proposal I’m working on and I’d like to identify at least a few of these plants.  I can’t believe how few growing things I can name.  Dogwoods and gingkos, that’s about it. I even think that some of these are the same type of plant over and over. Thank you in advance!

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And this bird.

It’s been out there ignored for so long it has sprouted plant life.

My book presentation that was originally scheduled for this Sunday, June 28, had to be rescheduled for Sunday, September 27, due to an emergency re-wiring of the theatre where the presentation will take place.

I hope people can make the new date!

Meanwhile it’s Monday.

I think I might go to a Mozart Requiem sing at St. Luke’s tonight.

Oh!  That reminds me, they are shooting a movie called Date Night on Hudson Street near me tonight.  I just googled it, it stars Steve Carell and Tina Fey.  I love them!!  We’ll see if I make it to the Requiem.

I’ve been obsessively following what’s happening in Iran, but I took a break, put Gigi on, and cropped and tinkered with some pictures I took over the past two days. Now I’m going to watch Eraserhead.  Or read.  But here are a few pictures from my aimless weekend.

Someone scattered rose petals in someone else’s doorway.  (Jealous!)

A pretty thing I noticed on the side of a building.  (Not so jealous, I get to enjoy it too.)

Awww.  Cute little protector Lulu.  (Jealous again.)

Love the flowers, love the flower pot.  (Back to my shared-pleasure-not-jealous position.)

A crowd looking at puppies in the window.  (Mixed feelings.  Cute puppies, but puppy mills!  Very bad.  Evil.)

I love the colors.  I need a table, right?  Or a bench.  (Longing.)

These are children’s chairs, so I don’t long for them per se.  Just something in these colors.