http://pizza.sandwich.net the blog of a canadian baha'i believer. Mon, 05 May 2008 05:47:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en hey hey hey hey have some photos! I've posted the photos from the ottawa Baha'i community's recent reflection meeting. In response to comments, I tried to take a lot more face shots this time instead of back-of-head shots and crowd shots. hopefully this helps convey the active, ... http://pizza.sandwich.net/2008/05/reflection-meeting-photos.shtml It's a warm, sunny Saturday in Ottawa. Saturday has become a de facto Service Day; I tend to spend most of my time here in the Baha'i Centre on Saturdays, while Sunday is quickly becoming a family-time day (for the past few weekends, anyway). This morning, our children's ... http://pizza.sandwich.net/2008/04/spring-cleaning-the-bahai-centre.shtml today's a fine sunny day and I'm inside :O oh well, it's for a good cause anyway—looking after the Baha'i Centre while a children's class is at the playground down the street, in case parents come early looking for their kids. spring has come to Ottawa like a mad ... http://pizza.sandwich.net/2008/04/blitherblather.shtml the work of a regional institute coordinator is pretty hard... http://pizza.sandwich.net/2008/03/in-quest-of-a-study-circle.shtml Here's a really cool version of everybody's favourite musical fireside song, These Great Oppressions—performed by Canadian Baha'i musician Dean Kalyan. These great oppressions That have befallen the world Are preparing it for the advent Of the Most Great Justice These fruitless strifes These ruinous wars Shall pass away And the Most Great Peace shall come And, as an added ... http://pizza.sandwich.net/2008/03/these-great-oppressions.shtml Tonight at the Ottawa Baha'i Centre, there's a community potluck organized by the east-end Baha'is (from "Sector 1" as it's habitually called). The sun isn't down yet and already the tantalizing smell of food wafts through the air—oven-baked pasta, casseroles, persian rice, curries and meat. Fasting heightens the ... http://pizza.sandwich.net/2008/03/breaking-the-fast.shtml Polynesian music group Mana wins the awesomeness award of the month with their new music video pulled straight from the pages of Ruhi Book 1 and the writings of Bahá'u'lláh: That seeker should also regard backbiting as grievous error, and keep himself aloof from its dominion, inasmuch as backbiting quencheth the ... http://pizza.sandwich.net/2008/03/backbiting-music-video.shtml hey - still fasting. extremely busy at work right now, and pretty fatigued; as such I haven't had much energy to put into creative endeavours (videos, etc) like I usually do. been reading Baha'i Views a lot, and ooh'ing and ahh'ing at all the marvelous content popping up on it. ... http://pizza.sandwich.net/2008/03/la-la-la.shtml the Baha'i month of fasting began on Sunday; from March 2nd to March 20th inclusive, Baha'is refrain from eating or drinking from sunup to sundown. This physical Fast is symbolic of a spiritual Fast—just as fasting helps cleanse our bodies from physical impurities, the Baha'i Fast is a time ... http://pizza.sandwich.net/2008/03/bahai-fasting-season-and-spiritual-life.shtml well it's certainly been a while since the last update, hasn't it? I blame the season. I love winter, but for some reason, every time it comes around, I just slow down like nobody's business. sad. I guess it's more of the winter blahs (I keep ... http://pizza.sandwich.net/2008/02/february-update.shtml