Magi
Magi
Author: Richard Beck
Source: Richard Beck, Substack
Link: https://substack.com/home/post/p-181243458
Advent placement: 2025-12-17 (paired with [[17-redbreast-px-edition]])
Theme: Anxious cartographers given an offered beacon - a steady, gifted light.
Verbatim source text
Reproduced from calendar/2025-12-17.qmd (Whisk(e)y Advent 2025).
Magi
by Richard Beck
We seek in sand beneath the stars, plotting fixed coordinates upon the sifting, mutable, and inconstant. Sweaty cartographers imposing maps upon the mysterious and inscrutable. Our navigation anxious, provisional, uncertain.
Then here, an offered beacon, precise and definite. A sign unknown to us. Direction so gracious this steady, gifted light.