Damascus Shop (Photo by EOD)
The whirling belongs to you, and you belong to the whirling. — Rumi
In my piece “Sharing the Sufis of Syria,” I included some photos of whirling dervish paintings that I took in Damascus. Those photos were close-ups, but here’s a whirling dervish painting displayed among other paintings in a shop at the Sufi complex I mentioned in an earlier post. If you look close enough, you’ll see something is missing…
