RIVERS: HOMEcoming.

 

Our life has not been an ascent

up one side of a mountain and down the other

We did not reach a peak,

only to decline and die.

We have been as drops of water,

born in the ocean and sprinkled on the earth

In gentle rain,

We became a spring,

and then a gentle stream,

and finally, a river flowing deeper and stronger,

nourishing all it touches

as it nears its home once again.

-- from the Sage's Tao Te Ching by WIlliam Martin