Camels…

Contrary to what many think, Lebanon doesn’t have camels. But in my work in Egypt and on the Silk Road, they’ve got me surrounded–and always make me smile. Perhaps one day soon I’ll be packing my bags and heading off to visit a place that has sand dunes and camels–since I find myself missing them…

Any wine will get you wasted.
Judge like a king, and choose the purest,
the wines unsullied with fear,
or some urgency about “what’s needed.”

Drink the wine that moves you,
as a camel moves when it’s been untied,
and is just ambling about…

— Rumi