Pathways with Saloomeh: The SAZ Method

03/20/2026

03/19/2026

I watched Hamnet the night before last. Then I watched it again last night. I’ll watch it again.

What Chloé Zhao did with this film is not something the rest of us can explain, or replicate, or fully understand. She is neurodivergent, and she has said it herself, that it is a superpower. That she feels everything more. That she sees what others miss. That emotional truth is not something she has to look for. It finds her first.

And it shows. God, it shows.

She took Shakespeare’s oldest language, the weight of Hamlet, four hundred years of grief already encoded in those words, and made it feel like it was happening right now, in your chest, for the first time. Only someone who feels the world the way Chloé Zhao feels it could have made this. The rest of us would have made something beautiful. She made something true.

Jessie Buckley carries the film in her body. Not her words. Her body. The way a mother holds a coat that will never be worn again. The way a room changes size when the person you love is gone from it forever.

I kept thinking about Iran.

About the mothers there, right now, tonight, learning how rooms feel different now. Whose children went into the streets believing in something and didn’t come home. Whose grief is not allowed a sound, not allowed a name, not allowed to exist out loud.

Agnes in that film screams with a grief that has no bottom.

Iranian mothers are carrying that same scream. In silence. In exile. In the dark.

A regime can take a child. It cannot take what that child meant. It cannot touch the love that outlives everything, that becomes art, that becomes memory, that becomes history.

Goodnight, sweet prince. All of them.
#

03/16/2026

There is a trembling that comes before courage. A silence before the first word is spoken. This book is for those who walked toward the fire — not because the flames did not frighten them, but because the cold of silence was worse.
Black Sheep. Coming soon.
— Saloomeh Saz

03/16/2026

Some stories are not written. They are lived — in the streets, in the silence, in the space between fear and the first step forward.
Black Sheep is coming.
A book for every soul who was told to sit down and chose to stand. For every voice that trembled and spoke anyway. For every heart that burned in a world that demanded it stay cold.
This is not just a book. This is a reckoning.
Coming soon.
— Saloomeh Saz saloomehsaz.com

03/15/2026

They Called Him the Black Sheep — a book about the fierce courage and transformative power within those who dare to stand apart.
For everyone who was ever called “too much.”
You were always enough.
Coming soon.
StandApart HealingJourney CourageOverSilence BookAnnouncement TransformativePower

03/05/2026

مردم ایران همه چیز را فدا کردند. فقط دو طرف وجود دارد. تو کدام طرفی؟
آزادی_ایران اعتراضات_ایران دموکراسی بی_طرفی_خیانت_است ایرانیان_دیاسپورا