
The Wise Angler and the Small Fish of the Morning River
On a sunlit riverbank, an old angler who rarely catches anything teaches a young visitor to watch the small fish, the mayflies, the mussels and the heron, until the learner sees that every creature is holding a thread of the same quiet cloth, and that belonging, not knowing, is the deepest rest.
Retold from The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton.