Heroes Not Zombies

I have quite a few photos like this. They all show well worn, moss covered rocks with exactly this colour of water pouring over them.

I look at a photo like this and I see Life. I see flow. I see how the river is never the same twice yet remains the same river over hundreds of years. I see the co-existence Nature’s kingdoms. I see the co-creation of this present moment, overflowing with all we call the past….the experiences, events and memories which flow into the here and now from upstream. I see the river surging forward filled with potential, making its way towards an ocean, to dissolve into the salt waters, to be whipped up into waves and foam by the winds and lifted high into the sky by the Sun to form clouds. Clouds which will turn to rain again over the mountains and run fast back down paths just like this one.

I see Scotland. Because that’s where I took this photo and that’s where I have seen all the golden peaty water in the world. I know there must be other places to see water like this but I haven’t been to those other places.

But more than anything when I look at this photo I see the Life Force which surges through our bodies, yours and mine. The energy, the vibe, the living, beating web of existence which connects us, you and me. And every living organism on this glistening little planet.

Without this water of life, none of us would exist.