There are about seven and a half quintillion grains of sand on earth (give or take). This sand has been formed over the last 500 million years. When you pick up a handful you are looking at history, most it consists of forms of coral and shellfish.

When you put it under a microscope new worlds emerge.

A practice in some forms of Zen Buddhism is to contemplate grains of sand. These monks "train themselves to be content to stare for many hours at only a few grains, a symbol of their capacity to pay due attention to the neglected wonders of existence"- School of Life

We look for the big, when the biggest gifts are in the small.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower 
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 
And Eternity in an hour

Auguries of Innocence by William Blake

Get skin in the game, pick up some sand.

Pierre