When it comes to relatedness you can just keep pushing back the years, past the dinosaurs, past the amphibians and bony fish. Keep on pushing , eventually you ll get to the whimsy of the Burgess Shale 530 million years ago when life began writing the rulebook and indulged in fantasy creatures. But don t stop. Keep pushing and you re back to the microbial and cellular. Everything came from somewhere , you know.
All life is relationship.
To see what I mean, let s give one more little push All life , or more accurately the building blocks for it, came from the compressed innards of exploded stars. Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen all of the heavier elements all of us . And there s relatedness for you. We are Star Stuff. The weave of relatedness truly is magical and offers a bunch of questions we will probably come back to.