Life is a mystery to be lived, loved, and experienced by getting up and showing We are as good as a dummy if we slow down or stop moving, learning, and growing Reza Noubary has experienced a full life as an insider, outsider, majority and minority, winner, loser, believer, denier, student, teacher, son, father, grandfather, friend, and competitor. He has dealt with a difficult childhood, poverty, physical and mental health issues, revolution, war, shortages, and the stress of learning and adjusting to different cultures, visions, rules, and values. In a collection of rhyming poems, Noubary, who is a math scholar, shares verse that touches on social and political issues and the related changes as well as contemporary life experiences and valuable lessons learned along the way. Within his compilation, Noubary explores love, happiness, wisdom, religion, and even mathematics while also including humorous insights that invite others to remember the importance of laughter, even during the most serious of times. Feelings and Dealings is a collection of life lessons shared in poetry form that remind all of us that life is a gift full of unpredictable surprises.