ThirstyFish

We kick off the New Year with this beautiful sunset shot at Pamukkale, and the befitting words of the great poet Rumi.

• Move beyond any attachment to names.
• Every war and every conflict between human beings
• has happened because of some disagreement about names.
• It's such an unnecessary foolishness,
• because just beyond the arguing
• there's a long table of companionship,
• set and waiting for us to sit down.
• What is praised is one, so the praise is one too,
• many jugs being poured into a huge basin.
• All religions, all this singing, one song.
• The differences are just illusion and vanity.
• Sunlight looks slightly different on this
• wall than it does on that wall,
• and a lot different on this other one,
• but it is still one light.
• We have borrowed these clothes,
• these time-and-space personalities,
• from a light,
• and when we praise,
• we pour them back in.
• -- 13th Century poet Rumi; Excerpt from The Soul of Rumi

Song of the Day: Imagine - John Lennon (1971)