A friend commented recently that she was walking along “thinking about food and sex and the other favorite subjects of the human mind,” when she was startled out of her reverie by a wild animal. Surely the human mind is the all-time great Storyteller of the universe. It gathers its initial material from the physical world, transforms that material into airy conceptual imagery (known as “thought”), scrambles the ever-growing mental […]
Danusha Laméris | The Bugs of Childhood
Don’t you remember them, the furred legs of a caterpillar moving along your arm, each follicle prickling beneath their touch? The crumpling of the ladybug’s underwings as it tucked them back beneath its glossy shell. The butterfly on your finger unfurling its long, spiral tongue. Rows and rows of ants, hefting their white eggs. The fly’s head bowed, antennae bent under the careful work of forelegs as it bathed its […]
August MOON Shine
“You shall love the stranger; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” – Deuteronomy “There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met.” – William Butler Yeats “One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.” – Jean Cocteau “Fear makes strangers […]
Jennifer Freed | Befriending the stranger
How can I possibly judge you when I have yet to taste your past, swallow your experiences whole? What I call strange you may call Home What you call strange I may call Self Are you from “elsewhere”? I am too, to you Unfamiliar — scary Alien —intimidating Closer –exhilarating Strange can be an invitation if you are willing Everything unknown– potentially you That first step past ignorance, […]
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