Edgar, >Woke to the sound of the peacocks...
Funny, because you can hear the peacocks from here, too ; ) Mike ________________________________ From: Edgar Owen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 6 August 2012, 12:09 Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen: Re: Chan and Zen Joe, I lived just across the street from St. John the Divine for many years... Had a great view from my living room windows... Woke to the sound of the peacocks... Edgar On Aug 5, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Joe wrote: >Merle, > >I suggest, Go when there's nobody there. That is the best time. > >That's what I did, at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, in New York City. > >Or sometimes, the Organist practiced. Fine. > >Frankly, New York's Saint John's is in fact the largest cathedral in the >World, in this Solar Syatem. Saint Peter's in Rome claims to be "large", but >Saint Peter's is NOT a Cathedral: it is a Basilica! Hahahahaha! I laugh, >although a lapsed Catholic. I'm more true to New York City than to Rome, for >true. > >M., You are a painter; those stained-glass windows ought to be the inverse of >anathema to you. What's the word for that? And, do you see them this way? >Surely, you do not miss them. > >I loved the Rose-Window at Saint John's. Grew up with it. Even while I >danced Sufi dances there, on Wednesdays. Especially. Sheikh would put his >hands to his ears and shout the Call-to-Prayer, inside the Episcopal >cathedral, to the stone rafters 120 feet above. I'd tear-up, inevitably. The >terrorists do not know this kind of sweetness in their own religion, alas. It >was sweet-honey to us, and is salty-blood to them, I fear. Not that they >distinguish. But, we were Sufis! The only mystic sect! We were not obeying >nasty sheikhs with nasty pulpits and fallacious ideas and incendiary >incentives. > >Bless those windows where you are. They ought to look different every time. >I hope so! I miss my old City: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. And some >indeterminate seasons, like Today. > >Best of Love, > >--Joe > >> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: >> >> i sift through the "crap" >> i sit >> the stain glass windows provide an aura of peace > >
