Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.

Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.