We are all arks. We all carry something through the desert, up the mountain, to the summit, back down into the behavioral ditch.
We carry pain, we carry healing, we carry anger, we carry love, and the people around us feel it, it effects them, they can tell. The arctic chill — or apricity.
The manna, Aaron’s budding staff, a universal morality — precious cargo rides in every ark.
Last week I told the clerk who sells me paint, “I love you.” All the women around her exclaimed, “He said he loves you!” I told my teller at the bank that she was “my favorite.”I told my neighbor I missed him when he was gone.
What do we carry along with us, and what are we giving away? These are choices, what we put in our arks, things of remembrance, things of refinement. These are choices, what we hand out on the streets, in offices, at home — kinditudes, affirmisms, gentlements.
Such powerful ark gifts, our sacred haut monde — they are lovely copies and gorgeous shadows of things above.
Thrive! 