Myra Beatrice

“...There's no right answer
to the wrong question.
Now what do we do?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

“This Stone

He went looking for a road
that doesn't lead to death.
He went looking for that road
and found it.
It was a stone road.
He walked that road
that doesn't lead to death.
He walked on it awhile
before he stopped,
having turned to stone.
Now he stands there on that road
that doesn't lead to death
not going anywhere.
He can't dance.
from his eyes stones fall.
The rainbow people pass him
crossing that road, long-legged, light-stepping,
going from the Four Houses
to the dancing in the Five Houses.
They pick up his tears.
This stone is a tear
from his eye, this stone
given me on the mountain
by one who died before my birth,
this stone, this stone.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

“If Man was the highest achievement of Nature's grand design, then Nature had a sense of humor. Whereas”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Saved the Worlds

“Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight