- Briefing Maeva
- Map Oronce Finé
This Monday is Valentine’s day. We wanted to share with you a map and a poem to celebrate it.
One of the ancient maps of the world is heart-shaped, carefully drawn and once washed with bright colors, though the colors have faded as you might expect feelings to fade from a fragile old heart, the brown map of a life. But feeling is indelible, and longing infinite, a starburst compass pointing in all the directions two lovers might go, a fresh breeze swelling their sails, the future uncharted, still far from the edge where the sea pours into the stars. -Ted Kooser, “A Map of the World”
Happy Valentine’s day!
Maéva