photograped by Jess Chanen Smith
Far off, I gaze at the white clouds,
I think deeply of the ancients …
I think of you, recluses:
A thousand years after, I cherish your principles.
Searching their essence, I cannot exhaust it. …
That the ancients cannot be with me
only I can know how sorely I regret it.
— Tao Chien
Carolyn Barron is a writer and Physician of Eastern Medicine in private practice in the wilds of Los Angeles.
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