Discourses with Rumi

Oh, if a tree could wander
     and move with foot and wings!
It would not suffer the axe blows
     and not the pain of saws!
For would the sun not wander
     away in every night?
How could at every morning
     the world be lighted up?
And if the ocean’s water
     would not rise to the sky,
How would the plants be quickened
     by streams and gentle rain?
The drop that left its homeland,
     the sea, and then returned?
It found an oyster waiting
     and grew into a pearl.
Did Yusuf not leave his father,
     in grief and tears and despair?
Did he not, by such a journey,
     gain kingdom and fortune wide?
Did not the Prophet travel
     to far Medina , friend?
And there he found a new kingdom
     and ruled a hundred lands.
You lack a foot to travel?
     Then journey into yourself!
And like a mine of rubies
     receive the sunbeams? print!
Out of yourself? such a journey
     will lead you to your self,
It leads to transformation
     of dust into pure gold!

 Look! This is Love - Poems of Rumi,
Annemarie Schimmel

 

 

White Fetish

 

Everybody I know will nod in agreement that I have become obsess with hues of white when it comes to buying most of goods for my house. It’s just easy to mix and match things. It makes the house look clean and inviting.   

 

  

Ok… I must admit it is also not easy to maintain because stains or dust can be viewed from far away but a wise friend once told me it is hard work to be beautiful. ;)

Up & About

FYI

(Measuring guide net-a-porter 2008)

(Pantone color palette 2008)

..Upon request I will gift wrap your purchase..

Morbus Ménière

My Ménière has been back for more than a month. Tinnitus has been ringing the exact same volume every second in my right ear and has never cease. Vertigo and nausea has been my constant companions. Since last week it has become a daily occassion, affecting my balance thus I can barely function properly.  

So please bear with me the inconvenient patient.

I found out that Julius Cesar, Charles Darwin and Van Gogh, to name a few, were Ménièreans.

 

Of course that does not make me feel better :P but this man in the pictures does!

Colors

 

 

Book, Audio Book

Yesterday my cousin, the lecturer, and I were taking about books and told me the only thing she reads nowadays were advertisements on her way to work or back home. I too, since the opening of The Shop have found it hard to sit down and read a book. But thanks to technology, I don’t have to read a book. Thanks to technology I can do my work/house chores while my laptop reads a book for me.

 

        

 

 

 

Or load it on my thumb drive and listen to it via the mp3 car modulator on my way to/from work.

 

Right now I am reading…I mean listening to a free audio book I downloaded from Harun Yahya while still being chained to my cutting board and sewing machine.