Silt

What is it to be human? Profoundly, humans are diggers of wells. The best of who we are in any civilisation includes the will and skill to dig a well, to secure a supply of life-giving water for those we hold near and dear. Around the world, wells take many forms, expressing our ingenuity and…

Day 7: Writing with Mo

my niece has poetry homework, so we sit in the observation dome car, downstairs where the biggest windows show a river ‘write about that?’ and we forge a haiku about sounds we can only see. then she points out how the river is like the rays in their petting zoo water tank, leaping as zoo…