Be it family or friends, colleagues, or strangers like boats passing in the night engage, let's also engage in other life forms that touch out lives.

They are all segments in time and place that rise and shine, fade and die.

Like the Bayeux Tapastery they weave thread into our very being and spread some happiness or unwanted pain.

But yeah encounter, experience, exchange is to be cherished and kept in your heavy wooden chest sitting at the bottom of your bed to draw from when life demands answers outside of your very own understanding.

In all relationships there is an exchange and just as in nature matter is neither created or destroyed it hangs in the ozone offering it's pearls.

And don't be fooled and believe this is just collecting for collecting sake much like an incurable hoarder.

It is the universe girding your loins to safeguard your weak points.

You like all the others touch others lives, perhaps only momentarily. Ensure the embrace is soft and responsive.

A very small amount of the essence of happiness and goodwill will blossom into the fragrance of a springtime wood in fill bloom with a carpet of crimson blue bells strewn in every direction, so placed to have maximum impact on our souls.

It is not always easy to love ourselves, or indeed others, but we can offer compassion as to a dying old friend or pet and impart in them a feeling of hope in the future of what is to come and acceptance of what has been.

We enter this life alone and we leave it alone. What happens in between is anybody's.

But those lifelong exchanges are the compound building of a gradual strengthening magnetic field which activates in your passing and attracts those invisible embraces from your lifelong friends and family patiently waiting for your final reunion.

In life walk only if you want to be followed. Stand still if you want to follow but in all things be gentle because you are a child of the universe and a universal existence.