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Friday Contemplations

Friday, February 17, 2017

Seven days until Ayyám-i-Há (The Days of Há), the Intercalary Days1 proceeding ‘Alá’ (loftiness) the Fast. Thirty days until Naw-Ruz and the beginning of a New Year. This year, 2017, the vernal equinox falls on March 20, and the Baha'i calendar (also called the Badi calendar)2, turns over at sunset on the evening of March 19. This year I am beginning a new poetry journal called "Bicentenary Poems and Prose"  because we will be celebrating the 200^th anniversary of the Birth of Baha'u'llah. Then in 2019 we will celebrate the 200^th anniversary of the Birth of the Bab.

Indigo3 Friday

Indigo Friday
Walk into the mystical
The land of wisdom

Gray clouds promise rain
Encourage meditation
Mastery of self

Indigo Friday
Spiritual awakening
Intoning God's word

It's a cloudy day here in Las Vegas. It looks like rain. It may have rained last night or early this morning because I think I hear raindrops when I woke up. Rainy days always give me a mystical feeling. I think that's why I wrote Indigo Friday. I had to look up the meaning of the color because I had forgotten the other meanings besides mystical.

Footnotes
1  http://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/bahai/the-intercalary-days.aspx
2  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_calendar
3  https://crystal-cure.com/indigo.html