Earth, Wind, Fire and Water

Earth sets out on an adventure, calling the others to join her. Not one to taste the newness without some coaxing, Earth seldom leaps across the boundaries of new frontiers without great provocation. Her tastes are simple, her patterns as old as memory, but she is grounded.

Wind floats gently nearby. Whispering with a wisdom older than time, she is deceptively strong. A quiet entity, one who can delve deeply into the depths others do not even see, she is never to be under estimated.

Fire, vibrant, bright, dancing with the energy of a hundred little thoughts, is never far away. She consumes life in great gulps of brilliance that can be altered in an instant. Here, there, everywhere, Fire is the driving force behind this gathering.

Water moves inexorably along the way, catching the light in little glimpses here and there, chortling down the mountain sides, raging through the impasses, gnawing away at anything nearby, needing to taste it, touch it, chew it up and swallow it, until she is satisfied that she understands what it is.

Earth, Wind, Fire and Water meet in this maelstrom and it becomes a centrifuge, wringing every bit of life's essence out into every nano second. It is intense, invigorating, exhausting. Not one minute is wasted. They celebrate each other and the world around them. Giddy with the joy of their togetherness, the laughter is exuberant, sides ache and eyes water. The feast never ends, body and soul devour everything around them until they are so full they almost burst. There are no boundaries, no limits to what they can do together as they go to visit their children, the falling leaves and the waterfalls, the brown bears and the passion of beings born long ago and aged to perfection.

Earth, Wind, Fire and Water ....