Celebrating Being

There’s “thereness” and then there’s celebrating “thereness.”  Our whole family joined by an ancient river yesterday and played.  It struck me that the river was there but we were celebrating being there.  The earth is there and almost always in its “thereness” seems completely made for humans to be with it.  Humans on the other hand are there but we are there to be with each other.  Now what struck me as kind is that it seems that when humans are together with nature our “thereness” becomes celebratory as if nature reminds us of our rapid transience and we dance and frolic in our being able to be.  An ancient river can slowly carry our thoughts to eternity from which it sprang and kindly reminds us that we are going there.  That to me is kind!