the world is just so alive. i go outside and the wind reminds me how to breathe, the branches sway in the breeze and my lungs leap to follow in tune, and it’s like i become bigger than myself - a leaf waltzing in the wind, the warm wood under the afternoon sun, the cool rain-damp dirt. everything becomes sharper in connection, in tandem, all of us humming to the same tune, falling into step.











