"We are busy with the luxury of things.
Their number and multiple faces bring
To us confusion we call knowledge."
From a Sufi poem by Farid Ud-Din Attar, "The Conference of the Birds".
This website was invented many years ago, when the author kept coming across interesting things in pockets whilst doing laundry. Like small, terrified reptiles. Blogging about raising children in the rainforest, moving them to the UK and watching them leave home one by one to have their own adventures has gradually been replaced by a return to grownup life for their mother, Nan Sheppard, who is an anthropologist, writer and public international law consultant.
5 comments:
i love that. peace to you and yours, Nan.
Bang-on, as usual...
xoxo CGF
His grammar confuses me. But it sounds impressive.
I love them Sufi poets!
We know many things, but we still do not understand.
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