Flower for the Day Silver Grass 11-3-23

Silver grass (Miscanthus sinensis) is my favorite ornamental grass. It is inexpensive and easy to care for -it essentially needs only water.

The gnome is my newest acquisition and my largest and oldest. He has a flower in one hand and a trowel in the other. 

Truly a 'gardening' gnome

In view of what is occurring in the world these days here is a poem from Rumi.

           Who Am I

What is to be done, O Moslems? For I do not recognize myself.
I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem.

I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea;
I am not of Nature's mint, nor of the circling heavens.

I am not of earth, nor of water, nor of air, nor of fire;
I am not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity.

I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsín;
I am not of the kingdom of Irãqain, nor of the country of Khorãsãn.

I am not of this world, nor of the next, nor of Paradise, nor of Hell;
I am not of Adam, nor of Eve, nor of Eden and Rizwãn.

My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless;
'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.

I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.

He is the first, He is the last, He is the outward, He is the inward;
I know none other except 'Yã Hú' and 'Yã man Hú.'

Rumi - thirteenth century poet and Sufi