The living word

In Tew's Day's mailbox, this final day of 2023 February . . .

Chinese poets believed that when the words stop the poem goes on like a canoe, its oars lifted from the water.

The word is dead when it is said, some say, I say it just begins to live that day. – Emily Dickenson

The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done. – John Steinbeck

Do you have the patience to wait

Till your mud settles and the water is clear?

Can you remain unmoving

Till the right action arises by itself? —Lao Tzu