A hand dipped in the water here, joins time immemorial and a universal energy connected molecule by ancient molecule to creek, river, lake, ocean, the milky way and worlds beyond.

The sun is setting on today. But the water will flow through the night to tomorrow and it will continue to run until one day becomes indistinguishable from the next and they join together in a line stretching forward and backward into forever.

The river’s seemingly eternal flow and dynamic sameness stirs wonder- how did it begin? will it last forever? where does it come from? where is it going? where are we going? where am I going?

These are massive questions... the questions of all humanity... the unanswerable questions religions were formed to help people cope with... the questions you quest and seek counsel to make sense of.

But in the end they are for you alone to answer.

When it all becomes too much it’s a comfort to know by simply dipping your hand in the river you are a part of forever and always will be.

Drawing and words by Nate Richardson, the Littoralist