Years ago my yoga teacher and friend once said that she was watching a big group of salmon struggling to get upstream past a large bank of mud. It seemed that many would die. She asked them in that moment why they were struggling so when they would inevitably meet death. Why not give up? She said the answer came back that their will to live was strong. That they could not give up.

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Tripura has passed now. Not so long ago of pancreatic cancer. May she fill the universe with light.

We homo sapiens sapiens seem to have a greatness that can breach the chasm of the cosmos. Indeed, often, our brightness gulfs the shoal of time.