Evening you gather back — Sappho

Written in the 7th century BC by Sappho of Lesbos — one of antiquity's greatest lyric poets — this fragment captures something no philosophy textbook can quite name: the feeling of evening as a return. Dawn scatters us outward into the day's noise and motion. Evening calls everything back. The lamb to the fold. The child to its mother's arms. You, finally, to yourself.

As the day closes, let what was scattered find its way home.