Like Borges’ lone travelers through the eternal and vast Library, never nearing an edge or a center, the separate Voyagers drift further from what we know. Forty human years and counting, and all throughout, we were being born, suffered the pains of growing up, found first loves, paved the rock-strewn roads of our own journeys.Continue reading “Pioneers”
Author Archives: Mabel Lee
Consumed
A note slipped into the lining of a cheap purse sewn by deadweight hands, machines resounding the automation of life between four walls no one else will know how far away, how inmates in the Yingshan Prison in Guangxi, China are working 14 hours daily with no break/rest at noon and black faux-leather becoming anContinue reading “Consumed”
Colby College, Maine
View of campus dorm buildings from Dana lawn, during Great Books week (ink, watercolor) July 28th, 2017 This is my happy place, among many others. But this place is extra-special — where there is so much space and time to think about the books we have read, lift their words and passages into acute focus,Continue reading “Colby College, Maine”
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