What does your horizon look like?

From where I sit at my computer I look out on a large gravel parking lot built on the backs (so to speak) of trees that used to live in the back yard of this old house converted into apartments. The new owners took out four or five trees and four connected garages in order to make room for the lot, which serves as parking space for this and the next-door (commercial) property.

For some reason, the powers that be also removed the old ash tree that grew and extended its branches toward my kitchen window, nowhere near where the parking lot now is. For years the ash sheltered me from the world’s intrusion...

But I look out now and see the busy, tree-lined street that curves up and out, eventually ending at Gonzales Bay. And I get to see green lawns, colourful flower beds, shrubs, and trees of all sorts on neighbouring properties---I have a much broader view of my world than I did before.

In a way, this change is in line with personal changes that have brought me out of my high-ceilinged ivory tower. The physical changes in my environment are reflective of my greater interest in interacting with the world, my coming out, so to speak. New vistas opening up, with me writing myself into the world (in part thanks to the zaadz-gaia experience and especially, Diving Deeper). The chrysalis emerging...