Rumi Is Now (February 11, 2007)
» Julie tells her story (mp3, 1:33)
I first heard the poetry of Rumi sitting next to a rocky tidepool in Hawaii after spending hours snorkeling among brilliant corals and fish. Our friends brought a book out of their beach bag and started to read his poems aloud, and it opened a world to me as full of life and vibrant color as the reef. Since then, his words follow me through my days. I have verses written on my office wall, in my book of favorite poems, and I include his words in letters to friends. Whenever I read Rumi now, the poetry is infused with sunlight and salt and the warm breezes of the day I first heard his name. Julie Hursey Petersburg , AK (Listens to On Being OnDemand)
