Deep Roots Movement

I awaken and reach out for something i’ve not yet held. There comes a time when a cool pillow can no longer suffice after a long night alone. Even so, I smile.   Although distant in this instant, our paths are converging and these inner energies are surging.   I wonder if she felt the…

I once had a ten day long night. Have you ever been in darkness for years? Have you ever cried out on your carpet? Have you sipped sorrow and drowned in your tears? I seek something no one can explain. I get stuck in my thought streams. I don’t know how i got here. I…

When you go from nothing to something, it feels like everything. And then it all changes, having once slumped under heavy weight, now upright, smile upon face.   I feel sober today. Okay, i spilled out happiness in that room over there like i’d been tipping the cup back again, but i’d already spilt what…

She had some in-sight in-form-ation, we here, a different kind of hear-ness, an awareness from a nearness most don’t approach and never know.   So i asked about that flavor, she says it’s in the back the throat, it’s been labeled an ambrosia and when you feel it then you know.   The dreamlike quality…

Sajdi says, I used to speak Farsi and it always felt nice to sing its sweet syllabatics in the starlight, there in that canyon. You know the one…   I forgot it all, a very long time ago. She says she can help me remember. I believe her, but i don’t know how.   What…

Have you ever sat to consider the Imam’s tremendous task? I do not envy him. I can barely hold it together knowing what little i know. When i look at the complexity of it all, my mind is blown, my heart so heavy. Do you pray for him as i do? He is crumpled in…

I can’t stop, even if I wanted to. I’m pushed to edges where roots dangle.   But there’s no compulsion in Islam, I say to her. She replies, you choose Truth, so nothing else can remain.   All burns in His presence. My heart is aflame. My fingers singe soil and my eyes can’t make…