with love and light

It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to know.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

I was once like you are now, and I know that it's not easy,
To be calm when you've found something going on.
But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

Cat Stevens , Father and Son

old man in Fatih Mosque

Old man is looking to the past

Only Breath

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim,
not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system.

I am not from the East or the West,
not out of the ocean
or up from the ground,
not natural or etheral,
not composed of elements at all.

I do not exist,
am not an entity in this world
or the next,
did not decend from Adam or Eve
or any origin story.

My place is placeless,
a trace of the traceless.

Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved,
have seen the two worlds as one
and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner,
only that breath breathing human being.

from The Essential Rumi translations by Coleman Barks

Hz. Mevlana (Mevlana Jalauddin Rumi)

visitors from Sultanahmet Mosque

pando

taken by Pentax K10D, at Istanbul

visit to parents

We 've visited our parents.

You see my uncle. He is formerly soccer, famous filatelist, collectioner

He lives in Istanbul since 1920 ...

visitors from Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque