And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart. --Mary Oliver
The Age of the Possible
Jun 5, 2022-- "...the octopus
with her body-shaped mind
and her eight-arm embrace
of alien realities,
with her colorblind vision
sightful of polarized light
and her perpetually awestruck
lidless eye
can see
shades of blue we cannot conceive."...
In this hypnotic poem Maria Popova views the age of the Anthropocene from the perspective of the octopus.
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