[Winter Break] These Ways of Being: Stone or Light
Next Words for Next Year
I explored some of his work in relation to another writer, Mahmoud Darwish, but a line from Octavio Paz is with me right now as I reflect and reset. It’s his poem, “Native Stone,” that holds one of the longest-lasting questions I have known. I understand and do not know the final line. It is powerful and beyond me.
Whatever is not stone is light
I cannot say anything further than this. I take the poem’s advice, close my eyes, and open them to think what of the world and myself falls into either of these ways of being: stone or light.
It calls to mind a favorite line from another favorite poet, Walt Whitman. And it is a combination of their two lines that I wish to close out this year and send you off with until next time:
Nature without check with original energy
Thank you for reading. See you in 2024.
More soon,
Trevor
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