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Jun 5, 2022

"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

"...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.