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We were voyagers - by visakan veerasamy - voltaic verses ⚡️

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I would’ve been about 7 years old when I started frequenting the public library as a child. I had my own library card, and I’d borrow my mother’s and my brother’s too, and I’d happily carry out tall stacks of books with me and start reading them on the bus on the way home. I remember reading about volcanos and dinosaurs and plate tectonics, about the Saturn V rocket, and carnivorous plants, and ancient civilizations. I remember being enthralled by the Pyramids and the Colosseum, the hanging gardens of Babylon (fun fact: turns out they were probably likelier to have been in Nineveh), the Colossus of Rhodes, great feats of architecture that seem to have been conceived and constructed in a completely a different world than the one we inhabit today. And while I was sitting in class ignoring some poor teacher droning on about the basic details of fractions or photosynthesis, I was often daydreaming about the pantheons of ancient mythologies, wondering how our own present-day religions relat

We were voyagers let us strive to be companions to our immortal predecessors visakan veerasamy Feb 04, 2022 112 11 7 Share "You think you are alone, and as the years go by, if the stars on your side, you may discover that you are at the center of a vast circle of invisible friends whom you will never get to know, but who love you. And that is an immense reward." – Jorge Luis Borges (1976) Moana has a vision of her ancestors (2016 film) the library ethos I would’ve been about 7 years old when I started frequenting the public library as a child. I had my own library card, and I’d borrow my mothe

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