January 24, 1993 - Granada, Spain...evening...lights across the city embrace
the body of the Alhambra; the smells of woodsmoke and food hang in the narrow
streets. Rambled around the Moorish section of the city; picked up a little
gold miror, an incense burner, a tiny bottle of perfume... Reading Idries
Shah's book The Sufis, prefaced by Robert Graves. "...a secret tradition behind
all religious and philosophical systems, Sufis have significantly influenced
the East and West...They believe not that theirs is a religion, but that it is
religion....The 'common sufi' may be as common in the East as in the West, and
may come dressed as a merchant, a lawyer, a housewife, anything...to be in the
world, but not of it, free from ambition, greed, intellectual pride, blind
obedience to custom, or awe of persons higher in rank." ...It appears there may
be an association with the Druidic order of the Celts.
July, 1993 - learn that Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is a Qawali Sufi.
November 26, 1993 - Idries Shah on Rumi: "the union of the mind and intuition
which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is
based upon love..."
March 20, 1993 - spent a wonderful evening at a "cafe" in the middle of the
desert...the address was "8 miles west of Rissani"...two brothers had created
an exotic oasis with their families, palm trees and wheat patches...it felt
like a settlement of Eskimos in an expanse of snow. We had been there in
daylight and they invited us back to hear their music, but when we returned in
the evening, we got lost trying to find our tracks among the many in the sand.
We saw some lights ahead; the brothers were on top of their roof waving
lanterns, signalling us home.
24 janvier 1993 - Grenade, Espagne...le soir...les lumieres de la ville
embrassent le corps de l'Alhambra; les odeurs de feu de bois et de nourriture
flottent dans les ruGirl I seen you round my way to day
Knew right then I had to have you babe
I saw your smile and looked in your eyes
And want you babe want you bad
The way you looked and the way you dressed
Let me know I couldn't settle for less
She's the one and she put me to the test
You don't really know what you do
You got me on a mission trying to catch up to you
I put you on surveillance or bug your phone
I'm like a secret agent trying to catch up to you
I thought it out and I made a plan
All with thoughts that I would be your man
I just hoped she'd feel the same about me
Don't get me wrong I'm not stalking you
I've picked up on all the things you do
The clues you leave let me know you want me too
You know you got me running here and there
Trying to find a place where you might be
I'll follow every clue that you might leave
Cause baby you know you're my destiny
I know I'm getting hotter and I'm close
To finally solving now this mystery
The evidence is clear and plain to see
That you need to be with me