We breathe in, we breathe out. In this world of connectivity, we live to celebrate another day and to experience life's shimmer as it comes forth in our lives with all manner of tears, happiness, grief, commitment, love, exuberance and celebration. The waves of ancestral power that shimmer and grab are also exactly the relationships that bring us full and sustain us. The kiss of life is an ancestral blessing, a life brilliant and pulsating in the world around us and within us. In this time of extinctions, we are going to be asked again and again to take a stand for life. We are called into recognition of the shimmer of life's pulses and the great patterns within which the power of life expresses itself. We are therefore called into gratitude.