Really enjoying Nadia Colburn’s 31+ Day Meditation and Writing Course. This is from Day 13 (repeated) – everything is interconnected. Words: wind, white, ancestor, pitcher, run, desire (amazing how different my response to the prompt is each time!) I played around with making it resemble a DNA helix, but not sure I was successful.

DNA

I view the whole picture
Chance and fate

The ancestors who met
While living their own journeys

Some desired a new land
Channeled the wind in their sails

In pursuit of better lives
And promising futures

English
Scottish
German
French
Canadian
Irish
American

Seems miraculous

We are all the product of
a million
split-
second
decisions by

Hundreds of forebears

Those lucky survivors of
storms
wars
famines and
plagues

We are the result of
centuries
of
love
stories

Suddenly,
I feel
uniquely
meant to be