Submitted by daniel.budd on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 7:57pm.
Echoing the first of these notes, I want to invite you to read the article I wrote for the Plain Dealer's "Messages of Faith" column. It appeared Saturday, May 29th, and is available at the cleveland.org web site. The address is: http://www.cleveland.com/religion/index.ssf/2010/05/like_poetry_religion_adds_dept.html
Listen to the presences inside poems.
Let then take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises.
- Rumi (C. Barks, trans.)
Submitted by daniel.budd on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 7:35pm.
Inside the Great Mystery that is,
we don't really own anything.
What is this competition we feel then,
before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?
This quatrain of Rumi's has been on my mind and heart a lot lately - since I signed up my 92 y/o father for home Hospice care two weeks ago. He and I have talked about what's going on - how the melanoma is spreading to his liver and who knows where else, how he cannot remain at home without round-the-clock assistance, how he has one foot in this world and one foot in the unknown.
