Speaker: Marcia Drake. Marcia recollects the poems, stories, fables, and novels that sparked her imagination as a child and teenager, and expresses appreciation for how they continue to inform her understanding of the dharma. Aesop's fables, poems by Shelley, Longfellow, and R. L. Stevenson, and Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities all echo the aspirations expressed by Shantideva in The Bodhisattvacharyavatara and evoke appreciation for impermanence and interdependent origination.