"What Was Said to the Rose" - Rumi (Read by Coleman Barks)

this is a simple video, just a gradual close-up on a rose.

but when these words wrap around my heart, i start to see more than the rose. i see my mother and my father. i see my heroes and sheroes, alejandra, carl, and stacie. i see my first love. i see my hardship and yours. i see my friends that i've known since grade school, and i see the woman working at the desk next to me. i see the universe and the heart. i see the rain and the earth.

but most of all, i see that rose unfurling, opening itself to the beckoning flirtations of the sun, sighing "ahhhh...." just under its breath.

this is where we live.

this is where we come from.