Pilgrimage to the River

Have you also learned that secret from the river;

that there is no such thing as time? 

That the river is everywhere at the same time,

at the source and at the mouth, 

at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, 

in the ocean and in the mountains, 

everywhere and that the present only exists for it,

 not the shadow of the past 

nor the shadow of the future. 

~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha 

The river called and we answered. 

The days were crisp and cool. It was quiet. 

We were almost alone joined only by the wild.

                                ....

                                here is the deepest secret nobody knows

                                (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

                                and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

                                higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

                                and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

                                i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

                                ~ E.E. Cummings, from [i carry your heart(i carry it in]