We Are Earth’s Children

“Listen: There is no earth but this earth and we are its children. The Earth is our home, and there is only one. The ground beneath our feet was millions of years in the making. Each leaf, each blade, each wing, each petal, each hair on the flank of a red fox, each scale on the sturgeon, each mallard feather, each pine needle and fragment of sassafras bark took millions of years to become, and we ourselves are millions of years in the making.” -Aurora Levins Morales, from “Earth Sh’ma,” a reading for Sukkot in her book Rimonim: Ritual Poetry of Jewish Liberation

Breathe and move with intention today, noticing your place among the children of the Earth.