Fresh Rain

This is the first Sufi group I joined in 1972. Click the link for the whole article.

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o                              Welcome to the first issue of Fresh Rain!

Fresh Rain is a quarterly e-journal of the Open Path / Sufi Way. Here you’ll findshort essays, poetry, stories, aphorisms, and quotes from teachers, students, and other friends on this open path we share, along with a calendar of upcoming programs and activities, news of what’s been happening, and biographical sketches of students of the Sufi Way.

We hope this will be a lively place where we meet, share, and grow together. Future issues will be edited by Amrita Skye Blaine; if you would like to submit writings for possible inclusion in Fresh Rain, please send them to freshrain@sufiway.org.

We begin this issue with an acknowledgement of our roots.
“Water the roots!” Murshida Sitara told us — so in honor of the 10th anniversary of Murshida’s passing, we begin with three iconic texts that give a sense of the depth of those roots: Inayat Khan speaking about the Message, Fazal Inayat Khan on the Qalandar, and a tribute to Murshida Sitara by Mehera Bakker.

And then comes a bouquet of poetry and reflections by Puran Lucas Perez, Jeanne Rana, Suzanne Inayat-Khan, Chris Covey, and Ian Scheffel; biographical sketches of Lynn Raphael Reed, Irfan Keshavjee, and Jurgen Beyer; and a prayer-poem by Pir Elias, Homage to the One.