We had quite a downpour,
this morning, after rain most of the night. I think every single one of us was
really pleased with this, not the least the farmers or the naturalists or the
wildlife or all the growing things. Oh, and the humans, who want to eat. Yeah,
that.
So when he got back from Boston today, after providing him with some of the important amenities of life, we took off down to the farmers fields, to the broad quiet place, just in time to be there while the sun set.
While the sky kept doing more and more complex things, as each minute passed. Being outside in nature, especially getting to know one particular place, or several, really well, is a lot like getting to know a person. Or an animal.
Each day, each circumstance, they present a new side of themselves, for you. And you greet this, and add it to everything else you already knew. Experiences you've already shared together. The insight you both have had into the other, as we learn to connect and care and respond.
Same thing happens between us and a place. And I think it happens in a more profound manner than any of us ever readily acknowledge.
Because there is always responsiveness, between the one who watches and the one who is watched.
And despite the propensity for our species to be so ridiculously and limitingly species-centric, really you never would really know which one was happening here. Is the human the one watched, or are they the one watching?
So when he got back from Boston today, after providing him with some of the important amenities of life, we took off down to the farmers fields, to the broad quiet place, just in time to be there while the sun set.
While the sky kept doing more and more complex things, as each minute passed. Being outside in nature, especially getting to know one particular place, or several, really well, is a lot like getting to know a person. Or an animal.
Each day, each circumstance, they present a new side of themselves, for you. And you greet this, and add it to everything else you already knew. Experiences you've already shared together. The insight you both have had into the other, as we learn to connect and care and respond.
Same thing happens between us and a place. And I think it happens in a more profound manner than any of us ever readily acknowledge.
Because there is always responsiveness, between the one who watches and the one who is watched.
And despite the propensity for our species to be so ridiculously and limitingly species-centric, really you never would really know which one was happening here. Is the human the one watched, or are they the one watching?
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