Sublime

There are repeating patterns of red ochre paint found in caves in southern Africa that are one hundred millennia old, giving us our earliest known evidence of what is called symbolic thinking … which means having one thing represent something else. On the surface, that may sound like a simplistic development, but it is the original act of sorcery

the woman is like a fairy godmother, or a deva spirit: in every culture, elderly women and men are magically capable of bestowing blessings (and curses!). That’s a bit of luck that we trust, in that moment.