“Men and women who dedicate their lives to the realization of their gifts tend the office of that communion by which we are joined to one another, to our times, to our generation, and to the race.” – Lewis Hyde, The Gift I just finished The Gift by Lewis Hyde, a fantastic treatise of gift [...]

From Canto 32 of “Song of Myself” published in Leaves of Grass by the Brooklyn poet Walt Whitman.   I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.   They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do [...]