Dirty Boots: “Do the careful, donkey-tending work.”

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. There are such vicious and empty flatterers in your life. Do the careful, Donkey-tending work. Don’t trust that to anyone else. – from “After the Meditation” by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks The 11th-century Persian poet Rumi lived and wrote a long way from the 21st-century Deep South, where we would simply say: if you want it done right, do it yourself.… Read more Dirty Boots: “Do the careful, donkey-tending work.” →