La Boheme

Spent a lovely few hours at dinner with the group at Nowa La Boheme, a lovely restaurant with "a swish, upmarket interior of pastel yellow and marble, complemented by a menu featuring good looking Polish dishes served with a nouvelle twist."  I found myself conversing with some very entertaining friends, with Anja, Chacho, Pancho, Aliaa, Mohamed, and Pawel all seated around a table, representing Serbia, Argentina (& Iberia), Spain (& Chile), Egypt, and Poland....  After spending 8 long hours in a conference room, we decided to loosely enforce a rule to avoid talking about work, and so over the course of the evening our conversation touched on all sorts of things...  Thank you friends for reminding me about what truly matters in life, beyond the industry we happen to work in...  

sweeping conversations circling back to sufi sentiments

seeing permutations of my cynicism slowly fade into irrelevance

cause we're all drinking from the same well

merchants of beauty looking for something pure to sell

the stories we tell are oddly parallel

perhaps our past lives propelled us to this moment to meet

the circuit completes when the vision is shared

we encounter the right teachers only when our souls are prepared

i've pieced together a profession catering to this circle of peers

& they perpetually spell out complex truths I need to hear...

sometimes when the shadows fall just right

once bottles of wine have tinged the night

the jet lag dovetails into some surreal deja vu

& I start to realize this might be what I was born to do...

i write till the collective wisdom comes through

distilling the diverse opinions of an entire motley crew

submerging my voice to the committee's will

just to pay my bills

& cause there's so much of the world i want to see still...