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The art that can emerge and the ways that we practice in our adoration of this bird today will be held on as available for that generation to experience as much as is possible in what the power of the nightingale was , if there ever becomes a “was.”
The Nightingale's Song – with Sam Lee
And what had Bowie given Anabin?
There is a song that Anabin knows and Bogomil knows better. He sings it often down in his realm. Even when Bogomil is singing other songs, he is always singing this one.
Bowie has heard this song many times. He has heard Bogomil sing it, and he has spied, too, upon Anabin as Anabin played it on his piano.
When Susannah
Kelly Link • The Book of Love
Mammoths and Ants
Look at the fragile mushrooms.
Look at the black widow.
Pause with me a moment,
and hear the cicadas humming.
Here is where I’m home, among the
mammoth red woods.
When I was lost, the ants absorbed me,
calling me to the smallness of Earth.
There I heard the song of silence.
Come with me through the miniscule.
Listen, the cicadas are
You describe something about the way the nightingale sings, which was about silence, that there is as much power to the silence in the nightingale’s song as there is to the notes that it sings; and that it taught you about the great art of decorating silence, a phrase I like very much. I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit.