This is one of the longest inscriptions I have in a second hand book. There's obviously a story in Caroline's heartfelt poem to the unnamed recipient of what was presumably a gift for Christmas 1972, but tantalisingly I'll never know, though it opens up realms of speculation 🤔💭💔💘
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"We often sing lullabies to our children that we ourselves may sleep."
"The song that lies silent in the heart of a mother sings upon the lips of her child."
“Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.”
We took a walk on Formby beach today, and seeing the sand and the foam whipped up by a bracing wind off the Irish Sea inevitably brought to mind Kahlil Gibran's inspirational book of aphorisms. Time for a re-read 📖
I'm not sure if there will be any quotable passages that I *didn't* post here six years ago! We'll see 😏
“I am forever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the sand and the foam,
The high tide will erase my foot prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam,
But the sea and the shore will remain forever.”
“You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.”
“Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.”
“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
- Gibran's words inspired the lyric for John Lennon's song "Julia" on The Beatles' White Album ?
“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”
pickGibran's ability to encapsulate a profound concept in a few lines is incredible. There's so much to think about on every page that it will require multiple readings to really appreciate. That's not to say that he's obscure, because he's certainly not, he's mostly cuttingly precise. It's that his message is, like most great teachers, a challenging one that for most of us (certainly me) would take a massive change of character to realise. 5/5 🌟
Sand and Foam | 
