Thomas Kinkade Bridge of Faith

Thomas Kinkade Bridge of FaithThomas Kinkade Autumn LaneJohn Collier Spring
Their word for themselves as a people was mulefa, but an individual was a zalif. Mary thought there was a difference between the sounds for he-zalif and she-ali, but it was too subtle for her to imitate easily. She began to write it all down and compile a dictionary.
But before she let herself become truly absorbed, she took out her battered paperback and the yarrow stalks, and asked the I Ching:the stalks away and closed the book, and then realized that she'd drawn a circle of watching creatures around her.
One said, Question? Permission? Curious.
She said, Please. Look.
Very delicately their trunks moved, sorting through the stalks in the same counting movement she'd been making, or turning the pages of the book. One thing they were astonished by Should I be here doing this, or should I go on somewhere else and keep searching?The reply came: Keeping still, so that restlessness dissolves; then, beyond the tumult, one can perceive the great laws.It went on: As a mountain keeps still within itself, thus a wise man does not permit his will to stray beyond his situation.That could hardly be clearer. She folded