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Pathways through the Mandelbrot Set – Part VI

Part VI of The Way of the Fool (forthcoming): the Mandelbrot set and fractal geometry as a map of the Fool's recursive journey through self and world. Essay

A Medley of Fools Heralds the Journey Within the Journey – Part IV

Part IV of The Way of the Fool: the many faces of the Fool — holy fool, jester, innocent — and the journey within the journey they herald. Library

It is a path within ourselves where the feet first falter in shadow and darkness but which is later made gay by heavenly light

It is a path within ourselves where the feet first falter in shadow and darkness but which is later made gay by heavenly light George William Russell, or AE as he preferred to be called, Meditation in Candle of Vision (1918): THERE is no personal virtue in me other than this that I followed a […] Essay

About the Boy – Part I

Part I of The Way of the Fool: how the Boy — an inner companion first met at nineteen — became the figure through whom a lifetime of writing finds its voice. Story

The Father and the Mother Make a Cage for the Boy

The Boy's parents — erratic Mothers, clockwork Fathers — build a cage around him: a story of the labels and expectations that quietly enclose a child. Library

Walking makes the path, and on glancing back one sees the path that will never be trod again.

Wanderer, your footprints are the path, and nothing else; wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking. Walking makes the path, and on glancing back one sees the path that will never be trod again. Wanderer, there is no path— Just your wake in the sea. taken from: “Proverbios y cantares XXIX” […] Library

The life of every man is a way to himself, an attempt at a way, the suggestion of a path.

But every man is not only himself; he is also the unique, particular, always significant and remarkable point where the phenomena of the world intersect once and for all and never again. That is why every man’s story is important, eternal, sacred; and why every man while he lives and fulfils the will of nature […] Library

You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.

You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine, Book VIII, Fable 16 Library

The impeded stream is the one that sings

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” ~ Wendell Berry