Hip-Hop Hero SHIREA is as Rare as they come

Three things.

1) The school year has returned.

2) Along with my enthusiasm and zest for living. The correlation is legit, yes.

3) I've been reading 'I Heard God Laughing - Renderings of Hafiz' which is a very pretty translation of the works of Hafiz of Shiraz (Khwaja Shams ud-Din Hafiz-i Shirazi, 1326-1390), who was a 14th century persian sufi poet. I found this piece really nice.

If a naive and desperate man
Brings a precious stone
To the only jeweler in town,
Wanting to sell it,
The jeweler's eyes
Will begin to play a game,
Like most eyes in the world when they look at you.

The jeweler's face will stay calm.
He will not want to reveal the stone's true value,
But to hold the man captive to fear and greed
While he calculates
The value of the transaction.

But one moment with me, my dear,
Will show you that there is nothing, nothing Hafiz
Wants from you.

When you sit before a master like me,
Even if you are a drooling mess,
My eyes sing with Excitement

They see your Divine Worth.