q has the tail of a monkey.
m was water.
And a was the drawing of an ox.
I heard Krista Tippet of On Being say those things about early pictograph language in this excellent podcast (“To Be Made Whole”) with the poet Ada Limón, current US Poet Laureate. It served as a jumping-off point for a deep discussion about the reciprocal experience we have with natu…
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