Friday, April 27, 2007

Bahar ra tosif konid!

بجز وصف دهان نیست هستش...... نمی‌آید حدیثم بر زبان هیچ

I had the same problem as Ahmadreza had with 'Ensha' at school… I also had the same problem with students who I asked just to write about whatever they liked because what they liked was to be told what to write about: "eexcuse me vaat ees de title?"!
So, here we are just to write about what we want but the difference between what "we want" here and in my classes is that I asked the students just to write about what their "I"s liked but here we need to write about my "I" as one of the HAMRAHAN.

It may be surprising but I suggest one of those 'Ensha' topics as the THEME of the writings of HAMRAHAN in this season: "Bahar ra tosif konid"! In our school days Bahar was supposed to be described in terms of fixed "always-the-same" and "for-everyone-the-same" facts. Perhaps that's what made it boring and nonsensical but there is much more to TOSIF! Our tosif of BEINGs could mean WHAT, WHO, and HOW as well as IS, and AM, and ARE (not in the sense of school grammar, of course!) as we really see them, not as we are expected to...

چون مرا زین بهار بویی نیست...... چه کنم وصف بوستان بهار؟

To begin our writing journey we can think and write about whatever we want, but as one of the HAMRAHAN, we need as well to see our community's WHATs, WHOs, and HOWs with all the AM, IS, and ARE! This will insha'llah give us a chance to write about "what we want" but at the same time to consider our HAMRAHAN who are writing about the THEME of BEING and not to write bout "whatever I like"!