Thank you Fern! From what I think I know of Rumi: that he was writing as one of an upper class left over after the Mongol destruction, it is amazing that he is holding out the light in the vicinity of such massive dark matter. This poem is a beautiful torch for us all in all times. As a European I felt well to read this letter to America…
Thank you Fern! From what I think I know of Rumi: that he was writing as one of an upper class left over after the Mongol destruction, it is amazing that he is holding out the light in the vicinity of such massive dark matter. This poem is a beautiful torch for us all in all times. As a European I felt well to read this letter to Americans from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and the question: would we do the same for you? We have to remind ourselves more often than we do. So, you have that close connection to WW II; I was born 1945 and always felt I have just been given all the opportunities and advantages. My father went to Finland as a doctor with the Swedish Ambulance during the war. Had the Nazis taken Sweden he would have been gone, because his mother was Jewish, and he had an idea that someone else would take care of my four older siblings if he had done this for Finland. My grandfather and the Ribbings are old nobility, so I am a bit of a left over upper class, after the liberal and social democratic reformation of the Swedish society! No comparison to Rumi. 🙂
Thank you Fern! From what I think I know of Rumi: that he was writing as one of an upper class left over after the Mongol destruction, it is amazing that he is holding out the light in the vicinity of such massive dark matter. This poem is a beautiful torch for us all in all times. As a European I felt well to read this letter to Americans from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and the question: would we do the same for you? We have to remind ourselves more often than we do. So, you have that close connection to WW II; I was born 1945 and always felt I have just been given all the opportunities and advantages. My father went to Finland as a doctor with the Swedish Ambulance during the war. Had the Nazis taken Sweden he would have been gone, because his mother was Jewish, and he had an idea that someone else would take care of my four older siblings if he had done this for Finland. My grandfather and the Ribbings are old nobility, so I am a bit of a left over upper class, after the liberal and social democratic reformation of the Swedish society! No comparison to Rumi. 🙂