PLATE 17
Quackle
Keeper of Both Things
“Two things can be true.”
StrengthConviction. Quackle knows what she believes and stands by it, always. She sees the world in lines: clear, precise, orderly.
TreasureThe Box of Absolutes. Yes and No. Right and Wrong. Stay and Go. And a hidden drawer, just underneath, labeled Both, for everything that does not fit.
SecretHer standards are highest for herself. Inside, she carries more color than anyone knows, a hidden world she pretends is a mistake.
CompanionIsh, whose shape cannot be held and definition cannot be found. Chaos in bright colors. Quackle tries to categorize. Ish disagrees. Constantly.
Quiet actShe argues. She questions. She challenges. But when it matters most, Quackle stays.
HIS PROMISE
“Maybe is not the opposite of knowing. Sometimes it is how we make room for more than one truth.”
