MIRRORS

I saw Bob Wilsons' "In the Blink of An Eye" in Athens last year.

Based on Mevlana Rumi's poems the play dissolved the words into dances,the poetry into movement. The Turkish and Greek verses remained completely unknown to me, but their images made up for the silence. The finale was played against a wall of turning mirrors, reflecting both the light and the transparency of the Whirling Dervishes. I found out later, that in the Islamic art and religious mysticism the mirrors signify the presence of God, as they reflect his creation.
See, how much one can learn in a week end in Athens ?

Back home at Cape Cod , I read "Mirrors in the Brain" by Giacomo Rizzolatti, a researcher at the Parma University, Italy. In the early 1990 he discovered the "mirror neurons" , a mechanism in the brain that gives us the ability to instantly and efortlessly understand the actions, intentions and minds of other people.... the American week ends can be surprinsingly enriching, too.