I am beginning to understand that the stream the scientists are studying is not just a little creek. It's a river of energy that moves across regions….

I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spin….

For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the unive….