Trees and Lakes

When we try so hard and things don’t happen, maybe it’s because they shouldn’t. No one begs a tree to grow or a lake to freeze. It is simply the way of things.

Human behavior so often gets in the way. Our ideas about ambition, worthiness, justice, and peace so quickly become commingled with those of others that our own internal arbiter becomes more an accountant than artist.

August is the best time to lay back. To see what keeps growing, what emerges, and what approaches.

That which you move closer to becomes larger.