Stories · By the Water

The Wise Angler and the Small Fish of the Morning River

12 min · Field and river · Calm · Wisdom

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.

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Story 9 of By the Water, starting at 1:48:35.