There are special momentswhere you connect with another living being.When no words are spokenyou can understand each other.Some moments you can physically feel,as you run with your dogand your steps fall in line, as if to the beat of a drum.You can feel it through music as you dance togetherwith someone you love, twirling in and out of the rhythmand letting it hold you close.When you don’t even try, it can happen,as you hold a baby close to your chestfeeling its fragile heart beat.And the precious life in your armsdoesn’t even know the brightness of the world,but you know each other.
When you are a baby, you don’t know how to speakbut you have a language.It is silent and without words.As you learn to speak,that unspoken language gets less practiceand slowly fades away like a memory from long agountil all you know are wordsas if that is the only way to communicate.Sometimes you can still use itand it will kick in on its own,that is when these moments happen.
The language is strong and quietlike a wooded stream.You will stop to listen to itand feel it in youbypassing your brainand rushing straight to your heart.If you hold onto that currentyou can embrace itand let it speak to youin its own way.

Landenberg, Pennsylvania