Category: Non Fiction

To parents

Lessons I have learned from the recent deaths of both my parents, roughly thirteen months apart (not in the order of significance).

  1. Make sure you have a will with an executor named. Don’t be lazy! When both parents are dead then everything has to be done in probate court under their supervision. It is a stressful thing to do to whomever ends up being the administrator of your estate. You may think “I don’t have anything…” and you would be thinking wrong.
  2. Make sure you have pre-paid and properly documented location for your burial or whatever your choice is for handling your physical body. Make it perfectly clear. If you want a full service and such, make that clear. Designate or write suggestions. Make it clear.
  3. The items that mean something to you, make sure to document whom gets what. Make it clear. (Are you seeing a pattern about this subject).
  4. You are/were the parents so in your death/s lead by example as well. You know the loss of a loved one impacts people so you SHOULD want to help your loved ones manage the responsibilities, grief and sorrow as best as possible.

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Open letter to Khamenei

I have come across an article that I would like to share. It is an honest analysis of the leadership of Iran and the people of Iran. It is no more than a five minute read. Here is the crux of it:


The Iranian people want basics: freedom, opportunity, fulfillment, wealth, and, even more basically, dignity and respect. You had 43 years to deliver this elemental package, and you wasted them all. 

This protest is not merely about better delivery of this or that product or service, or about one man’s election instead of another. It’s not even about your goons’ killing in September of Mahsa Amini, the woman they arrested for failing to meet the dress code you imposed without ever seeking the people’s consent. Instead, the unrest that her death sparked is about everything: it’s about your means, your aims, your priorities, your historical record and your foundational beliefs. 

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the title of the article is Khamenei, the Iranian people have turned on you… but the analysis of the article shows clearly that the people are tired and fed up with how Khamenei has turned against the people of Iran.

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