Friends & Neighbors…

I took these photos of some of my neighbors in Sudan while walking back home (to my mostly Sufi village) from excavating a Nubian temple in the Sahara…on some of our walks home, we hopped on donkeys, like the boys above…

Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was drunk with barley.

Drink from the presence of saints,
not from those other jars.

Every object, every being,
is a jar full of delight.

Be a conoisseur,
and taste with caution.

Any wine will get you high.
Judge like a king, and choose the purest,

the ones unadulterated with fear,
or some urgency about “what’s needed.”

Drink the wine that moves you…

— Rumi