Gift

You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold
to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean.
Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.
So- I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me.

--Jalaluddin Rumi

Mango

"It has a weird after-taste which makes the roof of my mouth itch."
--My brother, on why he doesn't like eating mangos.

Nefertiti

"She pure of hands, Great King's Wife whom he loves, Lady of the Two lands Nefertiti, may she live. Beloved of the great living Sun Disc who is in jubilee..."
--Text from the colonnade of the 'Mansion of the Benben-Stone'