"Time is an enormous long river of important events and important ideas and I am standing in it just as you are standing in it. Our elders were the tributaries. Everything they thought and every struggle they went through and every song they created and every poem that they laid down flows down to us. If we take the time to ask, if we take the time to see, if we take the time to reach out we can build a bridge between our time theirs and we can reach down to take from that river what we need to get through this world. Bridges from my time to your time and my elders from their time to my time all put into that river and we let it go and it flows away from us and away from us until it no longer carries our names or our identities. It has its own utility its own use. People take what they need to make a part of their lives."
~Utah Philips