I am not familiar with Meira Delmar. Perhaps I should check her out.
It is sort of amazing how people through the exchange of ideas with people we hold dear, if only for a moment rub off on us in subtle ways.
Do you miss her? Your ex-girlfriend I mean.
Why Rumi? Well, I loved the imagery he uses in his poems and also he wrote often on themes of love and forgiveness. I found it uplifting. There is one line of his poems that talks about love reaching everyone no matter what they believe.