An American Athenaeum

Thursday, November 12, 2026

This Isn't Piano...

Sunday, November 8, 2026

Dirty Work

Saturday, November 7, 2026

Ship of Fools

Thursday, November 5, 2026

Dear Old Frank

Monday, November 2, 2026

Don't Let Me Down

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Help Me

Monday, October 26, 2026

There Has Been An Awakening...

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Found A Job

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

More Leonard

Friday, October 16, 2026

Leonard and Marianne

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Kinga Glyk

Friday, October 9, 2026

Bandit

Friday, October 2, 2026

Delirious

Monday, September 28, 2026

Pressing On

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Coltrane

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Haleh Liza Gafori

Saturday, September 12, 2026

Insider

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Dirge

Saturday, September 5, 2026

Voices In The Wall

Saturday, August 29, 2026

Purple Rain

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*Disclaimer

I have taken the term "God's Unruly Friends" from the title of Ahmet T. Karamustafa's eponymous book (subtitled: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Middle Period 1200-1550), Oxford: Oneworld, 2006. Professor Karamustafa, a man of formidable scholarship and consummate taste, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this blog. His book has a rather oblique and complicated relevance to my blog insofar as it has helped me to get in touch with my own inner Dervish--but that is neither the fault of the book nor its author.