humans and the earth are both miraculous bodies. they heal themselves, as scorched earth reveals new vegetation while a skinned knee will scab over and produce new skin. they move on their own and hold within them energy that seems to come from nowhere. they evolve over time, consist mainly of water and act as if they are one-of-a-kind. we play among each other, us and the earth, casting one another to and fro in a tug-of-war of sorts to see who can dominate the other. we tend to affect the surface of our planet in some of the same way it affects us. with floods and droughts caused both by dams and dykes as well as weather patterns and seasons.

left to its own demise, our minds will wander like a piece of ivy. it will naturally flow from here to there, not following any particular deceivable pattern. it hops from place to place, settling not where we want it to but not far off. we can help guide it, with the power of suggestions and the focus of meditation, but once we let it go the old ways take back and the mind will slip again. perhaps to a problem or a person or a meme you had stumbled recently upon. a song might remind it of a time by gone where a smell will cause it to remember a happy or sad time. like waves on an ocean, it seems that the thoughts keep coming in, one after the next, only to retreat far away only to repeat again.

like our planet, our bodies are built on layers. a good foundation, one where good families and education instilled a strong ethic, a strong character, the right person will react the right way in most circumstances. certain areas of the earth, desolate arid deserts or marshy mosquito infested lands is not where one wishes to live or spend time in. perhaps some feel safe or at home in the barren landscapes of some places, but these same people have a stark personality not suitable for much interaction or depth. some cities, extreme in their complexity will attract the others, more prone for diversity and much more complex, like the bedrock these cities came from a unique character works best to call these places home.