Back To Blake

 

William Blake has always been and still remains in a class by himself. It is difficult to imagine a stranger figure or, yet, a more compelling one.

He was, in his own way, a religious figure in a sect of one.

His "Christianity" was, by his own accounting, "true Christianity," although it was so far removed from what the churches would countenance as Christianity that it would seem to merit a different name.

Call it Blakeanity: a religion far superior to any form of cognizable Christianity on offer in his time or in ours.  

Guess What?

 

Thirty years ago, it began to dawn on me that the people I'd been told are my enemies, are not my enemies. My enemies, I realized, are the ones who'd been telling me, "Your enemies are those people over there."

Ibn 'Ajiba

 

Eid Kareem!

 

Coleman Barks, RIP

 

Memento Mori

 

Ramazan Lamps in Cairo