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| sightings meet: Mariam from the spiritual director from the web editor |
 It's full sunflower season now. Quan Yin can barely see over them.  On the mesa the fat deer bounce through the lush and drying grass.  Across most of the hill road a snake warms itself. Please move. It climbs a little tree.  There's a new sweat lodge down toward the barn, made during the Meeting of the Ways to replace the one washed away in the summer floods.  Azima's house is well underway. Mid-month, the donkeys have a house tour.  By month's end the walls are higher. Here Azima looks at the fireplace site.  Adobes dry.  The meditation room's window is the first one to have its lintel set.  Next door, Hayra Nur's tiny place is almost, almost ready to start living in. Pretty soon.  Down the hill, Mariam stayed in the Adobe of the Message for a few days of individual retreat.  You could, too. There are more photos, contributed by Peter, Vakila, Shabda and Rashad, to be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sufisight/ Plus some new ones from Sky. |
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When Sophia Shunny invited me to come and visit her in Silver City, I had no idea it would initiate a major change in my life. I had visited New Mexico many times, but never had come as far south as Silver City. So in March of ’06, while in the midst of grieving the passing of my father, I decided to take Sophia up on her invitation. By the morning of the third day of this visit, I decided to move to SC. This was not a decision based on rational analysis of regional weather patterns or the area’s natural resources. It was soul-y based on the energy I felt in and around SC. So 4 ½ months later, I left the northern Kentucky/Cincinnati area where I had lived most of my 54 years and moved to Silver City, arriving just in time for the Southwest Sufi Camp in early August. Before the end of the week, I was in love with the SSC – both the land and the people I met there. But I guess you could say my journey to Silver City really started three years before this, when, after quitting my job of 18 years in corporate America, I traveled to Scotland for Saadi & Kamae’s Summer Institute. This is where I became immersed in Sufism, where I first met Sophia, Hayra Nur, and a man from California by the name of Matin Mize for whom I felt an instant attraction. The rest, as they say, is history! I look forward to sharing this ‘land of enchantment’ with visiting family and friends, especially my daughter, who lives in Virginia, and my son, from Kentucky. I anticipate enjoying many days here touched by the warmth of the sun, magnificent vistas, and the people of this beautiful land. |
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