I think it is all connected.  All of it.  The whole ball of wax.   The each-and-every-bit of that  kit and caboodle.  The full nine yards.  It is all connected.  Me. You. We. Them.  Us.  From the stars high above to the depths of the ocean.

I really believe this.

Life seems a little bit to me like those old “Connect the Dots” puzzles on the back of “Highlight for Children” magazine.  They used to be at our dentist and doctor’s office.  I loved that magazine.

The games in it were so fun.  The two pictures side-by-side that looked identical, at first glance.  But you had to find a half dozen things, or so, that made them different.  Like the clown’s tie would lose its stripes.  Or the poodle’s bow would be missing on one side.  Or that same clown would be juggling six balls instead of five.  But look at me.  I’m off track again.

Connect the Dots.  Yes.  I think life is like THAT game.  When you start out… it just looks like a bunch of little black discs scattered on a white page.  But soon, you start following the number pattern, and then you start to recognize some shapes… and before you know it…. you’ve worked your way through the entire thing.  You have followed the logical sequence of things.

And now, you hook it all together…… and you have a picture of a mime, speaking into a microphone.  Ahhhh…. yes.  The great revelation.

And that is life.

When we start out, we have no idea what it is going to be.  Sometimes even halfway through, we can’t see the bigger picture.  So then the older we get, and the further along we go…. things start coming into focus.  And finally… we start seeing how things have been mapped out for us…  our whole lives in history.

For each of us, the final picture turns out to be something completely different… but in many ways…. very much the same.  A bunch of dots and a line moving from one to the next.    When it turns out being a mime speaking into the microphone… well…  that is how it goes.

Yep.  Each dot hooks on to the next to make the bigger drawing.  The entire scenario. The complete concept.  All a bunch of connected smaller parts.  Connected.

“Tug on anything at all and you’ll find it connected to everything else in the universe.” – John Muir

 “Invisible threads are the strongest ties”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others…for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.” – Albert Einstein