A dear friend introduced me to the book, “The Illuminated Rumi” one summer during our fateful 20’s. A recent text exchange brought memories of that summer alive again. This was a poem from that book that I particularly enjoyed, and the inspiration for today’s song:
I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I’ve been knocking from the inside.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks
Thank you to Mercury Zootcracker for the inspiration for today’s exhalation