A Right Good Jedi
At the park a few days ago, there was a performance by a man juggling fire. He had two batons, each burning at both ends, and these he was throwing up into the air and twirling around his body. His movements were rhythmical and his adhering to the rhythm was his protection from getting burned. As long as he maintained his rhythm, the burning batons maintained theirs, and together they danced.
After a while, one of my boys turned to me in great seriousness and said, ‘He’d make a right good Jedi’.
High praise indeed.
All things Jedi are very popular at our house, and such skills as fire juggling are appreciated in the light of the exciting and fast paced light-sabre duels of the Star Wars heros.
The parallels between the Islamic mystic way and the Jedi Master-Apprentice relationship have been explored in plenty of articles, I won’t go over it again here. But, I am glad there is something in popular culture for boys to enjoy that has a fundamental core of goodness and that borrows from a noble tradition.
