This morning I opened Billy Collins book Water, Water, to learn from the poem “Winter Trivia” that “It takes approximately two hours for a snowflake to fall from a cloud to the ground.”  He then goes on to consider what he and his wife do in the two hours that a snowflake falls from cloud to ground.

I’m with that as I sort through the journey of the day, considering passage, transition, coherence, communion, and connection.  

In the poem “The Cardinal” Billy Collins writes:

They say a child might grow up to be an artist

if his sandcastle means nothing

until he leads his mother over for a look.

And so, it is for each of us to mother what we do, to be artists in creating our lives as we flow from cloud to ground, and rise back up again, delighting in the dance of impermanence and change.