Just Being Here: Rumi and Human Friendship

When the Persian mystic poet Rumi met the wild dervish Shams Tabriz, he said, "What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being." Rumi's poetry grew out of their evolving friendship, explains translator Coleman Barks, and continues into the present, "widening and deepening to become an atmosphere that dissolves boundaries and lets us breathe more freely." On Just Being Here, Coleman joins a close companion of his own Grammy -winning cellist David Darling to present a meticulously crafted three-CD celebration of friendship through Rumi's beloved poetry.