I had the pleasure yesterday to kayak a river near my home. It was an eight miles run as the crow flies, but probably about ten miles with the winds and bends of the river in a point to point paddle.
It was peaceful, calm, mostly quiet and deeply spiritual. The weather was perfect, a zephyr or two here and there, but mostly sunny with a few puffy clouds festooning the blue dream of sky.
In the calm glide of still water I watched the life that lives on the flotsam of the surface. Spiders and other insects marooned on leaves and on pieces of bark and wood that might flow for miles to a damn and a falls. What their fate will be I know not, but in the meantime their float was gentle.
Water spiders skated across the smooth glassy surface and often times exceed my paddled glide as I conversed with friends and enjoyed the companionship and the natural experience of a day on the river.
At one point I thought about all the life that lives in places we rarely think about. On the leaves and debrie I just mentioned, but also the bacteria in and on our bodies, the living organisms that we breath in and out with every breath, the microbes beneath the sea and the ones that sail on the particles of dust in the high atmosphere.
Life is everywhere, all we have to do is be aware and acknowledge that each is connected to the other in the sustainment of all life.
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