Connections

Stanislaus River-Big Trees park

As I think about the above photo of the river I wonder about all of the things that are present in that space: insects, animals, water, rocks, microscopic forms of algae, various plants,  and who knows what all else! I may not know the name of everything but I do know that much of the life in this habitat functions in an interdependent kind of way and probably on an instinctive and automatic level. There are a great many symbiotic relationships at work that aren't that dissimilar from human relationships. These animals and plants and insects are all fellow travelers with one another, even if they don't know it. And isn't that what we are as human beings? Fellow travelers with one another? We may not always recognize it on a conscious level but much like the teeming life and complex relationships in this river, that fact is always present.
Libby