Whole Forest

Whole forest:

the whole forest is more complex than the appearance of trees on a designated reach of land, there's no true borders to its biodiversity, no claim of acreage to the flight of birds that dwell there, insects that burrow beneath its surface, and touch of ocean carried by the rain. The whole forest is life, and extends all the way to our every breath taken, blessed and cleansed by the vital function of the trees, and in our own role of biodiversity -we exhale their favor in return, contributing to their well being through expelled carbon dioxide, a bit of essence shared.

we are forest too. 

no matter where we are.

there's no sense in viewing ourselves separate from the world, nor to divide it all in parts, a series of ecological systems that's somehow not a cooperation of the whole. We know better, truly and deeply so, we know our reality is one deeply entwined to soil, nourished through roots, and branched to sky. We breathe this connection, belonging completely to the influence of its span, interdependent to the point of being a single living entity. 

a whole forest, an ecology of simply being.

so at what point do we not hold ourselves a sacred grove? We are forest too, made of earth minerals, nourished by air, roots unseen but just as real. This is our ecosystem, earth to its depth, sky touched all the way to stars. There is no place not seen as true home, nowhere we don't belong. To see this, truly, deeply so, is to restore our place of honor, being whole forest again, a return as sacred grove. 

endless in our reach.

~

Peace, Eric