Becoming the Sun

(as spoken by little children)

What better time to celebrate the universal resurrection found in nature than on Easter Sunday morning?

Evidence of nature’s resurrection is literally everywhere. All around us. All the time.

No matter our religion, or lack thereof. No matter our politics, or lack thereof. No matter what varied myths or beliefs we may treasure, or lack thereof.

We are all active participants in this resurrection.

Down to every last atom in our bodies.

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When I taught science all day long to my elementary school aged students, which I was privileged to do every day for decades on end, we also studied death. We studied it as part of life, which … it is. Nature is the Great Recycler, endlessly re-using the very same atoms - linked together in ever new and different forms - again and again, over vast eons of time.

Over the years, I found that children can often teach us much about living - and dying.

The following are some wonderful realizations regarding death that were voiced to me over the years - all from little children: