Education
Que sçay-je? — Michel de Montaigne
What survives the wreck of time?
The force of imagination.
The power of expression.
A few voices from the past.
Human consciousness drifts
in an ocean of centuries.
Words and images rise, sink,
rise again, encountered endlessly
in the where and when of now:
a conversation between past and present
on the cusp of the future.
Pull up your mind. Join in the talk.
Encounter the best of what remains,
regardless of theory or PC or fashion.
Dive into the sea of tradition.
Ask yourself what you do not know.
Reevaluate. Re-imagine. Transform.
Emerge with perceptions you did not seek.
There are more things in heaven and earth.
Prepare yourself to experience delight,
the alchemy of surprise and awe.
Become an archaeologist of being.
Dig deep. Pay attention. Learn.
Keep at it.
The past lives in the present.
The present inhabits the past.
Pan like an obsessed miner
until the gold shows its flash,
glimmers of understanding at last.
