Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

I'm up in San Francisco with my wife and her family and there's lots to talk about (national security, green fuel, dentistry, child-rearing practices, etc.), but I can't get to it right now because I have to get ready for a long day of sightseeing, familial navigation, and serious, champion-level protein consumption. So for right now, I'm going to follow in the steps of my hero Yasmin and name five things I'm grateful for today:

1. My loving wife
2. Sunrise
3. Parents
4. Hot coffee on a cold day
5. The Golden Gate Bridge

I leave you with some Rumi sent to me today by Peace Quotes...

Those who don't feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don't want to change,
let them sleep.
This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
If you want to improve your mind that way,
sleep on.
I've given up on my brain.
I've torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it away.
If you're not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of words
around you,
and sleep.
- Rumi


(p.s. - I love that, "I given up on my brain"!!)

4 comments:

savannah said...

totally appropriate! xoxoo

savannah said...

you have mail, btw!

captain chaos said...

That's funny, the same line jumped out at me. I drank in a sunset yesterday while lying in a marsh trying to talk to ducks. It was nice not being naked as it was cold and wet.

Mr. Moose said...

Yeah, I guess not even a beautiful robe of words would be enough to keep out freezing cold dawn water.