From Dust…

Today is Ash Wednesday.
The beginning of Lent.
The 40 days, excluding Sundays, prior to the celebration of Easter.
Dark crosses marked on foreheads with these words:
From dust you came. To dust you shall return.
My thinking spins beyond the traditional understanding of those words.

I am from dust.
And so are you.
The dust of the earth mixed with stardust spun into the uniqueness which is you.
And, me.
Earthbound.
Always.
Our lives intertwined with soil and rocks and trees and rivers.
Life from.
Life to.
Yet, with our head in the stars.
That we might dream.
And, imagine.
Always.
Of what might yet be.