Talking to S, a complete character, about donkeys of all things! And he said this: what a strange animal it is. He's an animal that has "life" (or power) but who is in reality without life. His life is dedicated to serving others. I sometimes see him on the way home, at three o'clock in the morning, or around midnight, and there he is, there he will always be, tethered to a small wooden post. I know there is a world inside him but he is statuesque, motionless like a sack of stones. I'm sure he has desires like me and you but he's stuck there, and he'll be there for a year, two, six. And if he feels unsettled or restless all he'll say is "ahem".
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Haven't been fasting regularly this year-for the first time in ages. Feels weird. S said to Asim, I'm fasting but could you bring some coffee..and don't forget the biscuits. The social pressures to do so makes me wonder. As Amir once said: the difference between the 'west' and the 'east' is that we know we're donkeys!
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Javed said that God doesn't like two types of people: those who believe in other gods, and those who have lost hope. We, as a people, believe in Bush or money..thinking that they'll do it for us, get us there, smooth out our lives. But when one has lost hope one starts to believe in false gods.
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Miles Davis, Monk... it doesn't get much better than that, does it. Well of course there's also my hero, John Coltrane!
Thanks for stopping this way, Mary. Haven't listened to much jazz at all but did like these tracks-especially the wonderful silence in Miles's at the beginning. And I love this by coltrane:
alabama , which to me sounds like an epic.
Best wishes,
b.
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