As thousands at Sochi enjoy the Olympics, I shine– my glistening slopes radiate brilliant sunlight and feed all the excitement. I am the great blue seas that surge and sway, cooling my fiery innards. My icy poles balance the expansive, warm flow of my tropical circumference, and my breath swirls as clouds and wind in the atmosphere. My structure is dense, hard mineral; my clothing is green, organic growth, my flesh, soft brown humus, soil, and sands. I support creatures great and small.

Without me you would not exist . . .