The Wind Song — Portraits of the American West

What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two; melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land
— Ernesto Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries)
How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?
— Ernesto Guevara
Only that which can change can continue.
— James P Carse
My mind follows the night wind
over dunes and pinnacles
I can hear it whisper
each time more softly
that there is no need
to come back,
that I myself am the wind
so long whispering that our identities
are both cast in doubt.
— Loren Eiseley (Notes of an Alchemist)
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply.
— Roger Caillois (The Writing of Stones)

The story waits for no one

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