A Parabola Bestiary: Goat, by Joseph Cary

The trouble with goats

A Parabola Bestiary: Lion, by Vincent Rossi

Finding the true king in his cage

A Parabola Bestiary: The Cow, by Pamela Travers

Remembering the sacred mother animal

A Parabola Bestiary: Horses, by Alice van Buren

Meeting a horse to find peace, war, and the sea

A Parabola Bestiary: Tadpole, by Janwillem van de Wetering

The fluidity of who and what we are reflected in embodied transformation

A Parabola Bestiary: Bear, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The gift of fear and awe from a beast cold as the earth

Going Home, by Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush

Welcoming the end of the journey

Honey Song, by Neil Rusch

What the bees—and the Bushmen—know

Speechless, by Tracy Cochran

A meditation teacher loses her voice—and finds her way

A Week at the Hermitage, by Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O.

A Trappist monk’s sojourn at Thomas Merton’s hermitage