Today's solemn contemplation on the back of my roommate's bike

 My roommate has a silver e-bike that is just high enough for me to sit on as she pedals us to class. 

When I looked down at my shoes for an instant I realized I have a certain propensity for reflecting on very arbitrary matters whenever I sit on the bike seat. Today I thought about how it really is our duty to fearlessly care for one another--an ethically imperative duty at that. There is no way out and we are going to transform to other forms eventually & each at our own time. But while we are here, we are bound to one another in these forms, in these tempos, in these crises and that care is nothing short of an obligation. Things don't need permeance to be valued, value does not need to be stored in permeance.

To be alive is to experience evanescence!!!!!

This became crystal clear to me on today's bike ride. As clear as flowing water.