A Tale for Tomorrow

others‟ expectations and Impositions, while careful not to alarm anyone, looking out for an opportunity to move away for my studies; when such an occasion presented itself, through the general effervescence that was invading our region with the progress and urbanization of our society, my people did not dare to oppose my choice and I could move away and learn to orient myself without them, in a milieu and situations where I was just a young student midst hundreds; but still, naturally as it were, I went on discovering more invisible spaces and how to move in them; yet I had a doubt, or rather I felt a kind of lack, a need of something more central, more essential, more… true; and the more I met of this world and of the adjacent adjoining worlds, the more the need grew of a truth that would give them meaning, would hold and inhabit them all; I did not know how to formulate this need, this want, but it became ever more pressing and poignant; and one day I found myself at a junction, just between a sort of subtle shift and the perception as if of a door to be opened, a great and profound emotion, a silence filled at last, and the sense, physical sense, of a column of living light, of a light that loves and knows… Since that day I have always known where to return, where to stand, so as to find back this column and this pres ence and it is what guides me…” And here is what Tohar tells us: “From my early childhood I used to play with whatever material was available to create tiny habitats and environments and later to erect little cabins and soon I would reflect upon the meaning of lived, inhabited space, upon what man and nature could achieve together;

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