Wind moves the branches. We have watched this near the Nile, in the forests of the steppe, in the high divides where trees bow down in the raging air. The wind comforts us because it has always been there, in every life, pushing across prairie and sea. It makes the white out where someone, walking between familiar landmarks, is lost; and small waves that rock the boat we doze in.
Wind has been with us, an icon of how the world moves: taking and giving. Taking a life and promising breath. Always. As if we had come here to inspect time: to see wind wearing away mountains, and that still place between susurrant movements of air.
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