Flow

How can something that grows so slowly manage the appearance of flowing? It just doesn’t make sense to me. Of course, that’s true of much in the natural world, to say nothing of the human world, especially right now.

Perhaps the flow happens slowly so that it is a consequence of staying, for the most part, in the same place. That the subtle decisions of root placement seem like flow is just my construction, not necessarily what the tree experiences. Am I, once again, perhaps crediting my human perspective over the trees’ reality?

As with so much today, it’s all about perspective – and it has as much to do with observing the plant world as it does within the human world. In both cases, I need to be a keen observer but also a compassionate one, to hold open a space for new understandings grounded in the acceptance of differences. Sure, it’s bumpy (especially in the human sphere) but I’m not sure there’s any alternative.