An Evening With Rumi
Mar. 23rd, 2024 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo I was watching his hands, off and on, as he played his stringed instrument- and sometimes the fingers did elegant things and sometimes they got all bunched together like tubers- and sometimes they fell into configurations which if I'd seen them in a still image I'd have said were unnatural and badly drawn. Hands are wonderfully various and it's no wonder AI finds them so difficult to get right.
We were at the Printers Playhouse on Grove Rd with a little clutch of Quakers. There's a bar on the ground level and the shows happen in a a space upstairs that is no bigger than a bedroom. Duncan Mackintosh was channeling the Sufi poet Rumi- and it wasn't so much an entertainment as sitting at the feet of a master.
"Very like Quakerism" said someone afterwards and I said, "Of course because there's only One Truth" - which is what Rumi thought too. Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jew- none of that matters.
Afterwards we went back to John and Paul's for supper. Their house is newly built but modelled on a mediaeval manor house- with a frame of massive oak timbers and a great hall and a solar. Wonderful. I drank more red wine than I would usually do. Paul's snake Satan had shed his skin earlier that day and so we got to see him at his silkiest.
We were at the Printers Playhouse on Grove Rd with a little clutch of Quakers. There's a bar on the ground level and the shows happen in a a space upstairs that is no bigger than a bedroom. Duncan Mackintosh was channeling the Sufi poet Rumi- and it wasn't so much an entertainment as sitting at the feet of a master.
"Very like Quakerism" said someone afterwards and I said, "Of course because there's only One Truth" - which is what Rumi thought too. Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jew- none of that matters.
Afterwards we went back to John and Paul's for supper. Their house is newly built but modelled on a mediaeval manor house- with a frame of massive oak timbers and a great hall and a solar. Wonderful. I drank more red wine than I would usually do. Paul's snake Satan had shed his skin earlier that day and so we got to see him at his silkiest.
