by Christyl Rivers

Created on: November 09, 2010

Number one thing to do when you arrive on earth: Sense.  See, the colors of a sunset, the colors of sky, forests, dewdrops, cat whiskers, bruises, candle flames, and ripe berries.  Taste snowflakes and sunlight, bananas, broccoli, and orange juice.  Smell the fragrance of pine trees, ripe peaches, golden grass, and morning sky.   Feel all you can feel, not just comfort and warmth, but tears when they are appropriate.  Hear every kind of music, animal, vegeable and mineral.  Feel sand between your toes, and feel the ocean brush those toes as if the sea were a tickling feather, but also feel the roar of the sea, sensing that oceans have moods from toe tickling, more often, to Tsunamis, less often. Besides seeing, and tasting and scenting, know that you have an almost infinite number of senses to explore, like the sense of keen hope and adventure, or the sense of thirsting for things as varied as excitement and dancing, to a chocolate malt ,and a thirst for knowledge.  Be insatiable with your senses; do not let them be dulled by indoor life, computer cubicles, cynical thoughts,  droning big screens, difficult days, traffic, or anything that steals their power.

Number two: Know things.  Know that in life we have more times to smile than to frown, we have more reasons to laugh than to cry, but both are important to do. Know that people have wonderful unique qualities, but that deep down all people are of one human race, and we share much more than we are separated by.  Know, that you are also kin to everything that creeps, hops, grows, snorts, leaps, crawls, gallops, climbs, or almost any other verb you can think of. Know that you are a carbon based life form, but that carbon recycles through us, one day we are in the atoms of diamonds, and one day we are in the atoms of poo. One day water is in the snow atop a mountain, then it is in the river, then it is in your apple juice, then it is in your pee.  From the bacteria in your gut, to your blood cells, from your microbes, to the stars in the sky we are several, and we are one.

Number three: Need and be needed.  Everything is needed and vital and important on a vast and cosmic scale, but we are also small and we all need each other to live. Everything is both fragile and strong. Know that everything is ever changing and ever lasting.  Everything on earth, except garbage, war, and insanity was invented by nature. And love. Know that you have an

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