Living in Geological Time, Here in these Headwaters

Like mountains that cast off

Boulders,

Boulders crashing into

Ravines,

Mountain shards,

Cracking & Splintering their way

Towards becoming sand,

deep in the ocean -

           

And soon enough, ages hence, becoming mountains of a different stone,  yet again.

We,

Each of us,

Live,

Act,

In geological time & space.

The water you drink was also consumed by your ancestors.

The water you cast away will be consumed by your descendants.

The gold you wear may have been worn by Cleopatra,

And the bullet casing in your gun may have once been a cannon on a Man-O-War.

The carbon that makes up your body has been millions of things before it,

briefly,

became part of you.

Your footsteps,

Where you just trod,

They eroded what was.

Now on its way to becoming something else.

SO,

Are you Mindful of YOUR Footprint

On this earth,

Here, in White Plains,

In the highland headwaters,

Of the Bronx & Mamaroneck River Watersheds,

Rolling down hill into the Long Island Sound Estuary,

One of the three mega-watersheds - (Hudson Valley, Newark Basin, Long Island Sound) - Here,

In the Meeting-of-Waters Bio-region -

Where the Appalachians and the Adirondacks

Meet the Atlantic?