January 2024 Message
Beloved Family,
We completed celebrating Murshid Sam’s URS last night where a large group gathered here in the San Francisco Bay Area, home of the Dances. We danced and sang and shared stories about Murshid Sam and Tawwaba shared some history from the making of the just-released biography of Murshid, Sunrise in the West.
Most people in the USA have already received their Special Edition Hardcover of Sunrise in the West and now the book is also available as a softcover on Amazon and bookstores. We are working on getting the book into International markets, which is prohibitive because of shipping and customs. We are still hoping many of you will participate in the Special Edition offering, which goes a long way to helping recoup the enormous expense in manifesting this treasure for posterity.
Like so many of us, my heart is tuned to the world’s turning around so many ways of human suffering. Since it is the season of the URS of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, his words are resonating in my heart; “Love toward All, malice toward none.” I invite us all to rededicate our breath to loving kindness and compassion in action for our fellow human beings, for all that is living, and especially changing our behaviors to manifest deep respect and care for Mother Earth.