“We will change all things if we can make the imagination sacred,” Yeats wrote in his visionary novel, The Speckled Bird.

“But all the images and impulses of the imagination, just in so far as they are shaped and ordered in beauty and in peace, must become sacred. To do this they must be associated deliberately and directly with the history of the soul.”

Let’s choose now to recover and work with the history of the soul, and harness the great firehose of imagination to that, and make sure we have it pointing the right way.

Yeats in the Magic Cottage by RM. Oil crayons.