We recently celebrated Noruz – the Persian New Year. As you know, the holiday should be celebrated at the exact time of the vernal equinox. Calendar vagaries caused by solar system design flaws (The planet does not circle, eh, ellipse, the sun in an even number of days. Calendarwise, this means that the equinox occurs at almost random times on various days between March 19 and March 22 meant that this year’s Noruz occurred at 12:43:39 PM (Central European Time) on Friday March 20. Following tradition, Nazy began the festivities with an edict.
“We must set the haft seen, Dan.”
“The half sin, my dear?”
“As you well know, Dan, ‘’haft’ is the Persian world for ‘seven’..”
“We must set the haft seen, Dan.”
“The half sin, my dear?”
“As you well know, Dan, ‘’haft’ is the Persian world for ‘seven’..”
“Ah yes. It’s coming back to me. We celebrate the seven sins.”
“Dan..”
“The seven deadly sins. Hmm. I can remember sloth and gluttony..”
“Dan!”
“Why don’t we have a large and lazy dinner? That would be a good way to start the New Year.”
In fact, the seven ‘seens’ represent items beginning with the Persian letter ‘seen’. Our ‘hafseen’ table was traditional and beautiful
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