The Fez “Tarboush” as a Mirror for Thought

It is not entirely red, but colored by all the thoughts living within.

Intensely colorful like a spectrum, the silken threads dangle down towards the ground where humanity also exists. Each tassel bears a thought that creates a more diverse and accepting humanity.

It may be a head cover, but it is not a cover for thought. It traveled from Athens to Istanbul as the symbol of a social class, settling in our cities to become a symbol of the diversity of human thinking everywhere. It does not signify a particular class, nor a tribe; it is humanity echoing, and not obscuring, thought with any kind of cover, even a fez.

With those heading toward large cities, the fez remains a symbol of their diversity and variety through its colors; and path to their acceptance of each other. The color of the fez should not become a stigma for thought merely because it is different or because it thinks independently.

The fez does not forbid thought, but expands its horizons, opening up faraway spaces to fly within, swimming between the pages of enlightened thought. So it is, the fez, accused, even though it is in reality is the opposite of the accusation leveled towards it. Accused as a result of thinking and because of its colors of happiness.

When the fez is raised, you will only find more words and many more thoughts. Spend time with it and open your windows in its company and there you will find that it is merely a mirror for thought.

Let the thoughts spread and let us all receive them – you, me and them, for thought does not live within the heart of a tribe, but in the empty spaces of vast cities. The thought begins small and grows, something multiplies within the fez with complete freedom and remains so until it may be said that it open the doors to the acceptance of others.