Visiting the tomb of Khalil Gibran (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
I sometimes imagine myself, my bodily part, after death, lying in the earth and returning to the elements of earth: the great loosening, the change everywhere, the opening into simpler things, the widening out into those things from which anything may be built up again, the great Return, such deep quietness and a passing into the substance of things…
— Khalil Gibran
