Advertisement
Dear Rumi Community,Much gratitude for the next chance to polish our living connection with Rumi!
WHEN: Wednesday, September 30 at 5:30 PM
WHERE: Cole & Ustick Library, 7557 W Ustick Rd., Boise ID 83704
Everyone is welcome to bring a Rumi poem to share in English or Persian. There will be Persian desserts and tea from Divine Lotus Tea Company.
If you know someone who would appreciate the Rumi Night experience, please share this invitation with them!
Gratefully,
Howard and the Rumi Night team
PS: At the June gathering a participant mentioned a restaurant called ‘Taste of Persia’ on Ustick Road (two miles west of the Cole/Ustick Library). After a couple of visits, the report is: amazing balance of flavors and generous portions!
Night cancels the business of day;
inertia recharges the mind.
Then the day cancels the night,
and inertia disappears in the light.
Though we sleep and rest in the dark,
doesn't the dark contain the water of life?
Be refreshed in the darkness.
Doesn't a moment of silence
restore beauty to the voice?
Opposites manifest through opposites:
In the black core of the heart
God created the eternal light of love.
Rumi [ Mathnawi 1, 3861-65 ]
Camille and Kabir Helminski
Daylight pg.92
RED SHIRT
Has anyone seen the boy who used to come here?
Round-faced troublemaker, quick to find a joke, slow
to be serious. Red shirt,
perfect coordination, sly,
strong muscles, with things always in his pocket: reed flute,
ivory pick, polished and ready for his talent.
You know that one. Have you heard stories about him?
Pharaoh and the whole Egyptian world
collapsed for such a Joseph.
I'd gladly spend years getting word
of him, even third or fourth-hand.
Mevlana Rumi, C. Barks translation
—Rumi
Advertisement
Event venue
Cole & Ustick Library! 7557 W Ustick Rd. Boise ID 83704, 7557 W Ustick Rd, Boise, ID 83704-5810, United States
Tickets
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.