The Living Network

The Living Network

We are not separate stories,

but branches
of something older and bigger than us.

Roots carry what came before.

We notice,
experience,
discover,
and pass something onward.

A kindness.
A poem.
A photo.
A dance.
A new way of seeing.

Perhaps I am
one of the small places
where life notices itself—

and then sends
what it discovered
back into the living network.