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“A burst pipe can be fixed with practical knowledge, materials, working hands and working will. For other crises – the kind not amenable to immediate and practical solution, the kind before which a person may feel almost entirely powerless – what’s needed is something else, something that lives in art, story, music, myth, poems. Call it company; call it caliper; call it compass.” — Jane Hirshfield
A burst pipe can be fixed with practical knowledge, materials, working hands and working will. For other crises – the kind not amenable to immediate and practical solution, the kind before which a person may feel almost entirely powerless – what’s needed is something else, something that lives in art, story, music, myth, poems. Call it company; call it caliper; call it compass.