Visiting shrines with Sufis in Afghanistan (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
O you who’ve gone on pilgrimage –
where are you, where, oh where?
Here, here is the Beloved!
Oh come now, come, oh come!
— Rumi
The photo above was taken at one of my favorite shrines in Afghanistan, while I was journeying with some Afghan Sufis to visit as many shrines as we could. Though I was taken immediately with the peace of the place, it was the mint shade of the paint along with the pink flags tied to the shrine that really drew me in…
After this photo was taken, we shuffled to the side when an old Afghan man with a flowing, white beard–matching his white turban and blanched shalwar kameez–came to pray at the side of these tombs under the bowing branches of that twisted tree…
