OGT Daily - Day Four

One good thing is Zachary Quinto reading the love poems of Rumi at the Rubin Museum in honor of Brad Gooch's new biography of the 13th century Persian poet and Sufi mystic.

The music of poetry and the poetry of music can always put me at ease and in a more positive state.

Brad Gooch read passages from the book and there was a wonderful musician playing a mournful, haunting wooden flute that took you back to Damascus and Turkey in a time when scholarship and religion were serious pursuits in the middle east and Christians, Jews and Muslims lived side by side.

Gooch reminded us that the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Damascus were in much worse shape than they even are today because of the Mongols continually raiding from the east.   History can remind us that "this too will pass," eventually.

Another good thing is my lovely daughter, who loves Zachary Quinto and attended with me along with her partner.   We all had a great time, good conversation, and Venezuelan food after on 18th street at El Cocotero.

Speaking of music it was heartening to see people singing, "We shall overcome," in the offices of their Colorado Congressman when they went to protest the repeal of the ACA.  That was poetry to my ears and brings me back to the war and civil rights protests of my childhood.   We are all becoming more politically active and connected because of it.

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