word from a friend

[Averbuch]

dearest Julie,

    I loved these two poems by Rumi and I love and cherish your simple
Julie"s everyday voice.

     I am asking you please to talk to me in whatever voic you find. please,
it doesn't have to be meaningful or festive in any way, just human..
     I do not see my life as heroic in any way,
     I figure life, like all of us, day by day,

Much love and appreciation to you
Tova
Israel
averbuch at post.tau.ac.il



----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Smith <jsmith at MOSQUITONET.COM>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: word from a friend


> Dearest Tova,
>
> Sometimes when I hear your voice, I don't know how to respond.  What you
> experience each day is so different from what I experience that I don't
> know if I can find that place in me that will meet with you where you
> are.
>
> After reading your last e-mail, I knew I didn't have the words I needed
> to send back to you.  I sent out a hope for something to come to me that
> I might share with you, something that might ease your burden just a
> little.
>
> Yesterday my son asked me to take him to our favorite bookstore.  As I
> was browsing there, I found a book of poems by Rumi. In reading the book
> last night, I found the words I was looking for.  Here are two poems
> from Rumi, through me, to you.
>
> ----
>
> The way of love is not
> a subtle argument.
>
> The door there
> is devastation.
>
> Birds make great sky-circles
> of their freedom.
> How do they learn it?
>
> They fall, and falling,
> they're given wings.
>
> ----
>
> I was happy enough to stay still
> inside the pearl inside the shell,
>
> but the hurricane of experience
> lashed me out of hiding and made me
>
> a wave moving into shore, saying loudly
> the ocean's secret as I went, and then
>
> spent there, I slept like fog against
> the cliff, another stillness.
>
> ----
>
> Much love,
>
> Julie
>
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