For nearly half a century I didn’t really think about the big picture outside of myself. I was too focused on my own struggles.

Things change.

Maybe it is my traversing of the human lifespan that motivates a broadened perspective. For instance: in the last decade I have dwelled in the connections between all things, resolving my own philosophy about it, and reconciling. That everything here evolved together is important to me now, yet before I was unconcerned. Why? Because there cannot be a coincidence between something as simple as the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animals. There is a reason this happens.

If something so obvious can for so long escape my attention, what else out there exists without my acceptance?

These are my thoughts, wielding a cell phone with numb fingers while walking along this mountain at four-thousand feet.