According to Buddha

It is arrogant to think that our little earth is the only place inhabited by intelligent life.  There are many such worlds as this some more highly evolved, and others in earlier stages of evolution.  The orderly manner in which the universe is run shows that it is guided by some form of intelligence that permeates all created things.

well the road is wide,
and waters run on either side,
and my shadow went with fading light,
stretching out towards the night.

’cause the sun is low,
and i yet have still so far to go…

***

Terwillegar Park, Edmonton, Alberta ~ December 2017