As we remember pain and evil, we will avoid mistakes. When we remember beauty, we become this beauty for the living present. Awareness of the limits of life compel us to reverence and to bring forth what is within us, to enter the adventure of creating a self. The central powers of the human person are to imagine, to explore, to learn as deeply as we can, and above all to laugh. In other words, to be truly human is to engage in adventurous play, even as, or especially as, adults.
Fire is a self-organizing activity which is another cosmic dynamic.
The earth is a self-organizing process of astounding complexity and achievement. The earth maintains a narrow band of conditions for life and evolution. The whole process is alive and present in the individual creature. The macrocosm is connected with the microcosm. From the wind, we learn the cosmic dynamic of the second law of thermodynamics, which is exuberance, celebration, ultimate generosity.