Seat in the Shade 2016 - Coleman Barks

Seat in the Shade 2016 - Coleman Barks
Hendershot's Coffee
Athens, Georgia
June 16, 2016
Seat in the Shade 2016 is part of The Big Read, and is presented by Misha's PoetryCast and the UGA College of Education.
The University of Georgia
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[@aimeegaffney624]

Love you Coleman Barks~ spirited and sassy and open hearted jazzman of the heart in every imaginable way. You’ve opened so many doors for us in the west.....thank you! Live long!

[@danieldavid9194]

Two of my LONG TIME FRIENDS< Coleman and Rumi! Thank you!

[@galinacoffey-lewis3199]

wonderful wonderful wonderful.

[@koroushbozorgmehr3951]

Love from the heart of Persia

[@christinabrooks]

always so good to hear what Coleman has to share. Thank you for your translations , thank you for where it all leads.

[@shehaamjohnstone2845]

Thank you for such light hearted beauty!

[@KatherineGrace75]

Coleman, you are a national treasure.

[@KonstanzArrens]

There's a playfulness about Coleman Barks, but it's far from shallow or superficial. The simple, guileless, artless playfulness of a child - a seventy-nine year old child. And an unaffected sense of wonder, childlike too.

[@nancymohass4891]

Wish master Colman have someone to read the Farsi poems with him! I'll be happy to recite with you prof.

[@rahmanfiroz2094]

Nancy Mohass hi there! do you speak Farsi? :)

[@lismoiunehistoirecarolinal4829]

Bravo !

[@SueLyons1]

22:40 'then be apart together' ❤ 24:40 'there is a god to keep the rivers moving' ❤ 29:30 'everybody [all the gods] comes to their dance in their togetherness' ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘

[@jillhorne3467]

Glory Be..........

[@raykaelin]

Fine, fine, fine....

[@SueLyons1]

Maybe the song 'My Universe' is part of this too...

[@SueLyons1]

❤ prayer ❤ 💙 meditation ❤ 💙 💜 conversation ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘 'conversation brings strength, modesty and an extravagant opening of heart' 🌹 symbolised by the opening of the rose 🌹 🌹 laughing 🌹 walking 🌹 eating 🌹 playing 🌹 🌹 🌹

[@elhaamjani115]

How Rumi Destroyed My life He captures the imagination and directs them toward a self-destructive path of giving away material pleasures and physical comfort through periods of fasting to cause hallucinations and dread and preys on your conscience and uses the guilt to guide people towards depression and hopelessness Rumi is a hiding behind dark love directed towards the divine He claims to represent tolerance and universal love He claims that the spirit of his love dwells in every human heart His teachings lead to intense hallucinations especially during periods of hardship such as physical pain or dehydration He hides behind faith and spirituality but his teachings are full of hubris. This is evident in his teachings through a lack of any sort of acknowledgement of mistakes He captures the imagination and directs them toward a self-destructive path of giving away material pleasures and physical comfort through periods of fasting to cause hallucinations and dread and preys on your conscience and uses the guilt to guide people towards depression and hopelessness Some might remember a bearded Uber drive in the DC area who introduced people to Rumi in ignorance. Saed Wasim Hashimi