Or sad or upset? There's an "artist" in Costa Rica starving a dog to death as an "art exhibit". Well. That's just beyond completely stupid in my book.

Here's a link to a petition against said exhibit: www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/...on.html
And a link to a blogspot/info ***warning on photos** guillermohabacucvargas.blogspot.com/
I got the news through my Tribe friend Amma, who spends so much of her fantastic energy rescuing animals: people.tribe.net/ammanaga/blog

I was hoping this was a hideous joke, but so far snopes hasn't found that to be so: www.snopes.com/critters/c.../vargas.asp

*sigh* sometimes i just feel so bad for humanity...

i have some fumbling words about what it means, or what i think it means, and what eludes me. to put them here would not really do justice to his genious. However, the next morning, technology surprised me with some concreteness to what i feel he perhaps felt.

Desperately Seeking Simplicity

this time i must confess
i feel a total hate for myself
while crowded and swarmed
my heart wishes to be a single self

seeking that single pearl
i crave to dive deep into this sea
but fear of murderous waves
makes me beg for your help my friends

scattered with so much going on inside
i long for nothing but an inner unity
duality must be abandoned
if you seek to drink the soul of unity

you must bet and lose
everything you've ever owned
if you truly desire
to become one with your beloved

listen to the secret sound
of the revelation now
when your quest aspires the skies
fly away from this lowly earth

my heavenly soul
who only nests in the heights
is tired of its house on earth
it wants to abandon the body
it wants to take the final flight

-- Ghazal 3210
Translation by Nader Khalili
"Rumi, Fountain of Fire"
Burning Gate Press, 1994

We are thinking of you now...
with love