Shouldn't…but Do

Made stew yesterday.  Had the strangest feeling I had worked with meat and plants many times – for millennia.  And I have.

Washed a pot today, same feeling,  a thousand years of wash-up, store, reuse.  Not the realm of deja vu, but of Being, once and again.

For all their diversity and unique individual nature, humans are collective creatures.  Experience, pain, action, inaction, curiosity and so much more.  Cellular, physiologic, emotional, and spiritual inheritance.  We flow – through day, lifetime, epoch – despite incessant belief in bodily punctuation.

The fundamentals,  food, shelter  – the needs of you, of me, of those that walked before,  and those that will walk after.  Witness, live, and relive the coarse rich necessity of our species.  Energy passing through skin, bones, blood, inhabiting new lives, seeing with old eyes.  Storied.

I have lived for a thousand years.