“The beginning of wisdom,” according to a West African proverb, “is to get you a roof.”
– Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
The beginning of wisdom is to get you a roof. The sky might fall on your head. The weight of stars might just crush your skull while you sleep. You put a sheet between the air of yourself and all else there is, or you are not going to live very long.
On the other hand:
Barn’s burnt down
Now I can see
the moon
– Mizuta Masahide, samurai-physician-poet student of Basho
Image: A little illustration I made much too quickly to accurately depict any proper sort of night sky. © Kanya Kanchana
#seeing #knowing
Note: Apologies for missing last week’s post. I’ll make it up to you. I’m figuring things out: should I make some sort of coherent structure or simply let the posts come; how long should each post be; when and how often should I be posting; will I ever stop fiddling with the colour scheme; etc.