O My Country!, A Maghreb folktale, Retold by Anne Twitty
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. King Salomon knew the language of all living creatures, and all obeyed him, especially the birds. One day this great king, a master of wisdom, was sitting on his throne.…
The Awakened Eye, by Frederick Franck
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926): An Orchard in Spring, 1886 I was five years old. My mother and a friend I was expected to address as “Aunt” had taken us children to a modest little tea garden…
Hagoromo, Retold by Kenneth Lawrence, translated by Kai Lawrence. Art by Kumiko Lawrence
Illustration by Kumiko Lawrence Attributed to Zeami Motokiyo | Japanese Noh Retold by Kenneth E. Lawrence Translated by Edward Kai Lawrence Art by Kumiko Lawrence A fisherman, a celestial maiden: a fateful decision Hagoromo is a…
The Way of the Householder, Retold by Rama Devagupta
Photograph by Hans Eiskonen Anonymous Hindu Long, long ago in a holy forest, there lived a young ascetic named Kaushika. Because he had renounced the worldly life, he spent his time studying the Vedas and Upanishads,…
The Unasked Question, Retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
From The Boy’s King Arthur, 1922. N.C. Wyeth Anonymous | Medieval European “AND WOE TO HIM who failed to ask the question burning in his heart. For had he but asked, the king would have been…
How Wisdom Became the Property of the Human Race, by Anonymous (West African)
Again and Again Anansi Tried To…
Sarabha-miga Jataka, The Noble Stag, Retold by Margo McLoughlin
A Deer Hunt. c.1775 from Kotah, Rajasthan, India. Pigments on…
The Demands of the Way, by Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch
IN THE EARLY 1920S during the Bolshevik Revolution, Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch,…
Suvannavanna Hamsa Jataka: The Golden Swan, by Margo McLoughlin
Prologue Long, long ago, in the far distant past, the…