Roots
Fallen sequoia. Sequoia and King Canyon National Park, January 2018 Weightless floating in the air a leaf searching its way. Shadows stalking, light slowly fading away. A leaf missing its home, the branch where it used to live, the sun warming the winter away, the rich nurturing soil. With a swift blow, the familiar wind of the world, the tenacious breath of the soul, started wisely guiding it back. And step by step the leaf came back to its roots, to the place where exhaustion took the final toll from the trunk where everything started. That same place brought all leaves together, made the contact possible with other sprouts which likewise could all now arise out of collapsed roots from the Earth to reach for the Sun.