reading

I have been reading, reading all night, Shirin Ebadi's IRAN AWAKENING. What a life, how determined and how strong can a woman be! No wonder that she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

I am now reading Jean sassoon's " Daughter of Iraq" 33 pages over, and it is just so vivid in its description of Mayada's imprisonment. It is hair raising. Jhilmil learns by imitation, she comes to the bed, next to my pillow she puts her winnie pooh pillow and then she reads her haathi nee tory from her big hardbound fav book which has a really funny story of a 'tiny' baby elephant who worries why he is so tiny in his family.... and jhilmil sleeps while i read on...

how precious she is to me.

imagining separation from her in a few months time is so saddening, with such a heavy heart i count days.