"Bright the Hawk's Flight on the Empty Sky"

A Sutra from Ursula Le Guin

Please indulge me during this enormous time, to share thoughts without a lot of dressing – some pith as a navigation rudder…

It all exists for a short spell.

And then it doesn’t.

The rhyme and reason of “Here” weaving a burst of color against a vast Emptiness.

In her fantasy series Earthsea, author Ursula K. Le Guin presented readers with a sutra-like origin poem called “The Creation of Éa.” I find it opens my being when I sit with it:

Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk's flight
On the empty sky.