Πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei): All Flows
Posted November 12, 2008

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It struck me, forcefully, that this is life. This is where I have always wanted to be: the arms of family, in the joy and wonder of simply being myself, without the dissonance and the deep misery of not walking through the world in my own shape, in my own joy of the simple pull and release of breath. All flows. Πάντα ῥεῖ.

Life impresses on me that when one walks, or perhaps swims with the flow that life is unimaginably easier, more complete and more rich than I would have ever imagine a decade ago that it could have been. I draw within myself memory and hope, and watch them rise together recalling me to times when I could never have been so serious as any child at play. (Wo)man is most nearly h(er)self when (s)he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.