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Preface to White Mulberries
Every family member who visited us from Iran in my youth, with their smoky blazers and suitcases full of embroidery, pistachios, handmade trinkets, saffron, and gold for our future wedding days, also brought with them a far more precious collection of family folklore and personal memories that were shared over cups of tea as we…
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The Fool
Divinity: Asmān, Guardian of the Sky Manthra: To the high, powerful heavens; to the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy ones. ashnô berezatô sûrahe vahishtahe angêush ashaonăm raocanghô vispô-hvâthrô. (Flowers, Original Magic, 96) Sometimes numbered zero, sometimes twenty-two, often not numbered at all, the Fool is a card of beginnings, or pre-beginnings. A carefree…
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