One March day a few years ago I noticed some ducks and some fish in a pond. Not very remarkable you might think, but what caught my eye was the pattern.
This particular duck is creating concentric rings of ripples on the surface of the water, probably through the paddling action of its webbed feet. It seemed like it was sitting quite still on that one point, even though it was obviously constantly moving to create the waves. That in itself is quite beautiful and mesmerising, but there’s more. Look where the fish are swimming. Some of them seem to be swimming along the ripples, making them appear to fit the overall pattern.
As a whole image the duck, the ripples and the fish, create an interlinked, beautiful pattern.
I return to this photo quite often. It reminds me how interconnected everything is. Nothing exists in isolation or in a vacuum. Just by being alive I change the world. My breathing, my eating and drinking, my actions, my words and even my thoughts create ripples of change.
Some ripples don’t go very far, but others are picked up and magnified by others and spread far through time and space.
This is how it is for all of us, and it’s long been this way.
So this reminds me to try to live consciously in awareness of the fact I’m embedded in one great web of becoming.
What energies are you sending out today? What ripples are you creating?
Heroes Not Zombies 
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