Once again. The transition. There will be all the normal patterns and exchanges of fall. With it many of us change wardrobes, jobs, habits, destination. Some parts are familiar with repetition like the falling leaves and common annual cliches falling unbidden and blown away. There is for me though always some anxiety and excitement for the change. If winter weens us then fall is our first few days of preschool (or for some collage).
Life for me now is one big feasibility study. Time to strip this thing down and get a naked look at trucks and branches. I heard that 90 plus percent of WV has been deforested at one time or another. This is no pristine or untouched wilderness. This is more like the weeds that grow up after a cultivated field has been abandoned. Is abandoning the fields our idea of engaging the natural process? Ha! Participation requires us to observe, model, implement and test new strategies for our own lives and for interfacing the "natural world" that surrounds us.
So good luck everyone, with your plans for a new season. Plan on amazing (it's the new minimum).
If you compare the tangles of fallow forests with the symmetrical eye-pleasing rows of red pine plantations you will be left wanting. Those tree farms pleased you; I remember, but perhaps only because of their manifested intentionality. Now I know that correlating natural processes with nonhuman intention makes for a fuzzy comprehension, but I agree; we must find a way to engage the wildness so that all the humans and weeds make more sense and beauty. It is the season of intention.
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