EAU DE PAIN!

ShadowWalk - The Tapestry Unfolding
... Distant butterfly wings Writing in the sand Flapping for thousands of years Whispering
in ears Of suffering souls Strands of night and fire Are finally rising. ...
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Oh, Google, why dost thou taunt me so? I'm burning to see the entire poem in all its deplorable, mediocre, maudlin glory but the damn link doesn't work! I'm tempted to propose a contest to complete it, but I'm scared TO DEATH what y'all might come up. (Besides, magdalene1 has already dibbed the "Bad Writing Contest" meme for herself.)

Orientalisch Westfalen

I find this very cool: A Dominican monastery in Warburg that was going to be turned into a hotel(!) was instead sold to the Syriac Orthodox Church and is now the residence for the bishop of the German diocese. I'm assuming most members of the diocese are nominally Turkish immigrants despite being Christian, but they could be from neighbouring countries as well, since the Arab population of Germany is a non-trivial three-hundred thousand or so. They could even be Aramaic speakers, like some of the Assyrians in Chicago.

Am I the only one who finds it curious that none of the references I've found to the church's namesake, Jacob of Sarug/Serugh, mention how he got that appellation? And that, furthermore, I can't find an entry for "Sarug" or "Serugh" in any gazatteer?