Ruminations on Mind, part I

Union, Maine, August 12

The doves are cooing this morning.

When I was a child in Hamburg, Germany, we lived near the Hirschpark on the Elbe river; there were a lot of doves and cuckoos in the area, and one of the impressions I carry with me from childhood is the sound of these two bird species—especially the doves. To this day the sound itself somehow conveys a question for me …