at the round Earth's imagin'd corners
Dec. 21st, 2017 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksI love Donne, but at some point, with my nose embedded in a fusty old book about medieval European belief structures, I found out that he was wrong: the earth's four corners are physically factual, and just as much there as they ever were.
We stand at one of them tonight, the darkest and most hopeful. Turning toward the light.
Happy Solstice, and I wish you all joy of the long slow march to spring.
We stand at one of them tonight, the darkest and most hopeful. Turning toward the light.
Happy Solstice, and I wish you all joy of the long slow march to spring.
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Date: 2017-12-22 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-22 04:25 am (UTC)I recently learned about the Four Corners Project, one sculptor's decade-long quest to make a giant tetrahedron spanning the earth with little corners peeking out of the ground in Easter Island, Greenland, the Kalahari and New Guinea.
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Date: 2017-12-22 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-22 05:48 am (UTC)The same light to you.
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Date: 2017-12-22 08:50 am (UTC)I love that Donne poem, but it also always reminds me of Four Corners, heh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Corners
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Date: 2017-12-23 04:48 am (UTC)Bless you.
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Date: 2017-12-27 11:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-28 01:26 pm (UTC)Thanks for the well-wishes! I hope your end of the year is going well!
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Date: 2017-12-27 06:51 pm (UTC)