Prayer for the new year for the world and ourselves

[Gabrielle Dean]

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high 
Where knowledge is free 
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments 
By narrow domestic walls 
Where words come out from the depth of truth 
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection 
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way 
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit 
Where the mind is led forward by thee 
Into ever-widening thought and action 
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake

 

Rabindranath Tagore

Happy New Year to everyone ❤️ What image could go with such a large perspective as the poem is asking for? The eruption of the wave at the red lichen-covered rocks  in Tasmania somehow spoke to me.  Interestingly I typed big-picture into the thesaurus and the strongest recommendation was “essence”. I like that, I’d  like to dwell with that lovely word and concept for a while..

[Laurel & Michael Ellis]

Thank you for this wonderful poem, Gabby.  It will need many readings.  And thanks, too for all your many contributions over the year.  Happy New Year!!!

 

X Laurel & Michael.

 

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