Quote for Today: Barbara Hurd

Okefenokee Swamp Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Okefenokee Swamp
Public Domain Image via Pixabay

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

―Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

3 thoughts on “Quote for Today: Barbara Hurd

  1. Morgan Reply

    Thank You for this Lovely post. I Truly Appreciate Your Inspirations 🙂 Happy Friday and Have a Fantastic Week End~

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