Just why Neolithic people built grand circles of standing stones, and what they did with them, remains shrouded in mystery. But we assume that they served religious and ritual purposes. Which is to say that they are a mystery designed to address the Mystery.
What rituals or places help you get in touch with Mystery?
[We live] in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
—John Dewey
What surmise or mystery leads you forward?
There are moments where it seems like our life maps should be labeled: “Here be dragons.” You look to the edge of the known world and all you can see before you is uncharted waters. And there is nothing for it but to swim.
What have you discovered beyond the edges of your known world?
The moon waxes and wanes, hides behind clouds and then reemerges, flirting.
What do you love for its changing nature?
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of [our] desire to understand.”
—Neil Armstrong
What mystery makes you long to understand something?
