A fine fall day

 

What do we know? Today, it's a fine fall day.   Everything swirls around us, like winds of uncertainty---the plague, wars, politics, the way we live our lives.  

Our lives of multiple devices, internet, cars and mobile phones, bottled Zen Water.

It's not just a metaphor to say we are living in the eye of a hurricane. Hurricane Ian has left destruction and suffering in Florida.  Now it's heading for South Carolina coast.  

After devastating Puerto Rico, Hurricane Fiona has left power outages along the coast of Canada.

Every fall is not the same. Leaves turn colors, but the timing and intensity of the colors varies from year to year. Trees are turning colors here in the midwest, now. The red maples are living up to their name.

And who would have imagined the varieties of oak trees--the sizes and shapes of the acorns!  Each one is unique, as each leaf on every tree and bush is unique in its colors and patterns.  Imagine an acorn,  in a hundred years...

Uncertainty and impermanence color our lives. Under cloudless blue sky on this last day of September,  I saw a boy stop to watch a squirrel on an oak tree, and take a picture with his phone.

 

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