CD Rom The New Papyrus

Believe it or not but I have been using cyberspace since 1987 as a graduate student at Columbia University in NYC. It was not yet labeled the "internet" and we needed to use command strings to access the electronic bulletin board service or BBS. It was also a dial-up system. From day one I was just absolutely head over heels in love with the potential of this new technology. My final thesis, which was entitled, "CD ROM the New Papyrus" got some points taken off simply because my adviser admonished that this technology would never replace paper as a communication system. I often think that after 22 years I should renegotiate my grade just for the mere satisfaction of proving to my adviser that I was right. Well, as a Virgo, I can't help it - I always want to be right!

Everyday now begins with going "on line" and connecting to the world - to receive communication from the paperless universe! Each day I am inspired by gifted blog writers which I follow for daily bread, or food for my soul. Soul Flares is one site I like and today Annie had a poem by Rumi that was just dead on for what I needed to feed my soul today. I share it here:

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Rumi