Ancient Thera, Present Teacher
Margaret Wheatley (2004)
The wind working its
way through ancient
cracks and ill-fitting doors pestered
me all night.
Now it is morning and
nothing has settled down the
wind refuses to clear a space
for contemplation. This is stormy
country, lost to fire and sea, buried by meters and
meters of hard pumice rain and heavy boulders,
the volcano falling into its
fiery heart and sea blazing in to fill the steaming
crater that once was island.
Gorgeous culture ended here.
Island home to painters who knew
no restraint who ...
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