A Stranger on the Riverbank

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."

-Ursula Le Guin, "Winged: the Creatures on my Mind," in Harper's, 1990

Image: Found
Title: Nod to Mahmoud Darwish, from “Who Am I, Without Exile?” from The Butterfly’s Burden

The language of birds

What is imagination but a reflection of our yearning to belong to eternity as well as to time?

-Stanley Kunitz

Title: Thanks to Rene Guenon, The Language of Birds


Photo: Gertrude Käsebier