Get by with a little help from your friends

Elephants are a unique tribe in the animal kingdom, endearing them to human cognition: they are run by a matriarch; they will split the family if it gets too large to ensure survival, and they grieve for their deceased.

This holiday season, follow the herd and know when it is time to break off to ensure survival.

Honor the matriarch of your family, without her you would not have had the birth to this one precious and wild life.

And when a death occurs, whether physical or of emotional expectation, grieve so you may move on to be present, to give a hand to the fledgling life - of a child or your own childlike self - that deserves an untethered hand to climb the landscape of life that yearns to be had.

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