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[shulamuth]

I came across the following poem on a flyer for The Great Night of Rumi
It made a lot of sense to me. I think I need to pay more attention to each visitor.

Guest House

This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them

Comments

[ladycelia]

That's beautiful. Do you mind if I repost it in my LJ?

[shulamuth]

Sure, or send a pointer here. It's only 700-something years old, so I imagine it's been repeated/printed/posted many times.

There's a nice Rumi poetry site at:

[shulamuth]

(grumble, grumble, grumble)

http://www.khamush.com/

From which I also gleaned:
You are in love with me,
I shall make you perplexed.
which somewhat describes a (guess which) sweetheart of mine.

[ladycelia]

Hey--could you tell Keith that there are paid, full time positions available on two tallships out of L.A.? The Exy Johnson and the Irving Johnson. To/from Catalina mostly. Info on tallships_daily on LJ.

[shulamuth]

Will do.
He just got a job on the Richmond Pacific Railroad, though, and I'd like to see the ChooChoo U classes pay off for at least a while.