"What's a Hynerian?"
Kyra kneeled with the crack of leather, her eyes on level with Ariel's. "A silly label given to divide what was once undivided. We do it with river and gulf, with ground and sky. We think it makes us civilized, important, learned."
Ariel looked puzzled. "Emy said she was one. And that you were too. And when I asked her if I was, she said no."
"Em was right. You see, you are much more than a silly label. You're a child of the universe. And there is nothing more beautiful than that."
"Are you a child of the universe too?"
"Yes."
"And Em?"
"Yes, Em too."
Ariel pondered her answers like a little lawyer. Satisfied, she launched herself into Kyra's arms and proclaimed, "Then we should play like children and leave those serious adults to their bidness."
Kyra pulled her head back. "Bidness? Where did you hear that?"
"Rog. He said he was going to give Yul the "bidness" and he sounded very serious about it, so I thought it must be something those silly adults do."
Kyra laughed like a child at the end of a long school day. "You know what?"
"What?"
"I think we should go play."
"Can Em come too?"
"Absolutely."
And two smiles became three as Kyra looked above and gave thanks.
11 comments:
My sweet tooth is gearing up for Christams!! :)
Make sure you brush morning and night, cause I'm gonna stuff your belly till it aches. :-D
Bless her cotton socks. :-D
Very nice little chapter, and Kyra suggests that she may be as good with children as her Papa was. :-)
The image is just stunning, so beautiful!
Thanks Sunshine. You are a child of the universe too. :-)
What a delightful Chapter! That is so true. It is bad to divide land & water & air...
& yet is worse to divide Humanity in the name of nationality, caste creed racism and worst of all religion.
The whole of this universe is the evolution of primal nature and evolved from one center. All the changed manifestations that we see are apparent, even of space , time and causation; or name and form. It is by name and form that one thing is differentiated from other. In reality they are just the same.
The universes is manifested. It is neither existence nor non existence. It is not existence because that can be said only of absolute and unchangeable and in this sense it is non existence. Then again, it cannot be non existence either for if it were, it would never produce the phenomenon. So it is neither. I would just say, it is inexpressible by the limits of human thought.
We are all one, and the cause of evil is the perception of duality. As soon as we begin to feel separated from one another, we become small & therein arises fear...& misery.The little personalized self is the cause of all misery...The individualized self which makes one different from another brings hatred and jealousies and struggle
Behind everything exists the same divinity, from the lowest worm to the highest human.
Love everyone as your own self, because the whole universe is one and in injuring another, you injure yourself. Then again, in loving another, you love yourself.
Mona, I couldn't have said it better myself. I want to thank you again for enriching the story with your very insightful and wonderful comments. You take the central idea of a chapter and breath life into it. A gift is what you are. :-)
Pure :)
I love the image - it reminds me of an antique Christmas bauble.
Happy Friday to you, Tree !
p.s. did you read my post from Tuesday the 20th ?
Annie, I did. :-)
Thank you Miladysa. Maybe I should have saved this one for xmas. :-D
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