Poetic Illustrations on YouTube

Poetic Illustrations on YouTube
Poetic Illustrations on YouTube

Maz at the Kennedy Center

I have been contemplating on how to even begin writing this blog.  The greatest gift that Jen and I receive through this project, is meeting our heroes.  Each individual we meet is an experience of its own.  In the month of November we had an amazing opportunity to meet the one and only Maz Jobrani!!!  Personally, he is one of my favorites, and yes...it is mainly because he is Iranian!  :)  He has an amazing story to tell, and he tells it through his jokes and stand up comedy shows.  One of the areas that he has been talking about in his shows is immigration. (please check his show on Netflix-- https://youtu.be/Vz8-MGVDs2M)  It is a hot topic in the news and in our country.  The main reason why we decided to do this book.  Maz Jobrani is an immigrant, from Iran.  He is our hero because he is proud of who he is.  He does not try to hide it, or deny it.  On November 16, 2018 Friday at 8 PM, we attended the Maz show at the amazing Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.  


 


Before the show, we had the opportunity to meet him in person.  As usual, we always like to give a gift to our heroes.  The gift is a picture frame (the illustration on the left side and poem on the right side).  As he read it, he liked how his teeth were "very straight" in the illustration and the poem gave him goosebumps.  It always puts a smile on our face when our heroes are moved by our work.  The work that THEY have inspired.  Oh yeah...I HAD to ask Mr. Jobrani for an autograph.  I just had too!!  :)









Jen was not present with me on this journey, because family is our number one priority and her son had an important football event the same night.  So the video below is just me, myself and I.  Hope you enjoy and as always thank you for following us and supporting us.  It means a ton!  




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