- - Trade your cleverness for abandonment.  ~ Rumi Frederick Leighton’s painting of a music lesson (see note below), perhaps between mothe...

- - Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation. I say these things disinterestedly. Accept...

- - The Norwegian Jøtul wood stove in the family room (where we spend most of our home awake time -- where I write, read, work on photog...

- - These eye sketches are from a page in the Andy Warhol Idea Book journal Inge gave me a couple years ago for my birthday. It's Ing...

- - my office window The Sunrise Ruby In the early morning hour, just before dawn, lover and beloved wake and take a drink of water. She ask...

- - There have been countless messages of water in the last week. Garlic and sapphires in the mud (T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets ), silen...

y- 1 A blogger wrote what you couldn't say - do you know how it feels to be empty that way? 2 A photo at f...

- - photo "Statue" used with permission of photographer Carl C Move Within Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. D...

- - . . . We are here again with the beloved. This air, a shout. These meadowsounds, an astonishing myth . . . - read the whole short p...

Almost every day I read a few lines of Rumi . His words inspire me to be the authority of my own life. Remember when you wrote in school ...

Glen Velez and Coleman Barks at the November Rumi event I just read about the 47-minute film called "Rant" that came out in 2006....

another Rumi poem, translated by Coleman Barks. It's how I feel today. Some Song or Something Birdsong brings relief to my longing. ...

a Rumi poem, translated by Coleman Barks The Uses of Fear A donkey turning a millstone is not trying to press oil from sesame seed. He is...

Rumi quotes in bold arabesque (orange). - Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, or just Rumi . I met his writing a couple of years ago. You...

Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish writer and winner of awards. I first came across his work when I read about his 2001 novel, My Name is Red , after ...