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RE: Dreaming of the Sahara: Tinariwen
Thanks, for the intro — love the desert & music 🎶
Also, your outdoor tub, under the stars... far out ✨
Thanks, for the intro — love the desert & music 🎶
Also, your outdoor tub, under the stars... far out ✨
Oh I hope you like them! Let me know what you think amd thanks so much for engaging! Now.. bath under stars AND Tinariwen.. thats total heaven!
I did enjoy them, reminded me of my desert experiences (one day, I might share those with you). Keep up the quality posts, hopefully, you will be rewarded for your efforts, soon.
_/|\_I would love to hear about your desert experiences! Did you live there?
Well, I was born and raised in Egypt, so surrounded by Desert... and, in the years before I left (I'm now based in the US) I would try to take a yearly pilgrimage there to cleanse the door of perception
I think you've sold me - which book of yours do you recommend I buy?
'as if transfixed
by a gaze, stern-serene
surveying a dream
foreign-familiar'
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but this rings true for me. When I found myself in the desert on the edge of the Sahara, I found myself in tears, a strange kind of ecstatic joy that was reminiscent of nostalgia and longing for something beyond what I could comprehend, but also a recognition of somewhere I had returned to, as if I had been dreaming of it my entire life. A foreign-familiarity. Perhaps it was the way the words and images of literature seep into your soul, so that you actually have been to that place before in your imagination, and when stepping into it, it's like a home coming. Or maybe it was just the light - I'd been living in England, a place of valleys and shadows, and being Australian, I was missing that rich warm light that spoke of home, the 'whirling skirt of sky' and 'streaming light and stars' that was absent for me, then. I really appreciate your sharing - what a way to discover a writer, on this platform!
You're a sensitive soul. That's exactly what I meant:
(Here's another ecstatic desert meditation, originally titled I Wept for Creation)
Pleasure to virtually meet, intimate stranger :) As far as which book to begin with, well, what do you like? If poetry, Balancing Acts, if essays, Trial by Ink, if conversations, The Artist as Mystic. Lastly, if aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere, but you'd need to purchase that from me, directly, for the time being. Thank you, for your support
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