A crisp, bright, life-filled world greeted me as I stepped outside this morning. The horses calm and grazing across the way. The trees moving through their preparations for winter. The poor crushed turtle on Walter's Mill, (yes, I moved it to a bank space where at least it will be eaten, transformed to other than paving.) The grasses, those still green and those going sere. The harvested corn field, and the corn in the adjoining field that is too damaged by summer storms to harvest with a machine. On and on, all variety of life.
We're about to cross the threshold of seven billion human beings alive around the globe. Have you ever met your double? Ever observed any doubles? Even "identicals" exhibit subtle variations. Seven billion unique human beings.
And then, if we expand the definition of life, we have other mammals, birds, plants of all sorts, fungus, bacteria, virus... All variations on the theme of ways of being in this world. How can we doubt that the world is full of being, beyond our comprehension?
The multiplicity of being astonishes me.
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