2016 thoughts 

The way I’ve learned to see it, we can know some things- but those things can never be “man made.” Intensive inquiry made without acute observation from the natural world? Thoughts? Writing? Speech? Words themselves? These are all things we make every day to help others better understand our experience. Can you imagine that, once upon a time, the languages we use now did not exist? And yet this world still existed- the energy and connection that is this universe and all others out there existed. This connection is what we can trust in- something beyond ourselves and not something we made up for our own benefit. And trust me, I love words. They are amazing things that help us communicate our understanding of this phenomenon, our everlasting connection with each other. But we cannot hold onto them TOO tightly; we cannot believe our thoughts and words to be TOO powerful and all knowing. We will never fully know; but we can feel and sense this Higher Being: the simple fact that everything in existence came from something else, that we are all powered by the same fuel. And in words, many of us have decided to call that fuel Love. And I think that is a word well chosen. ❤️