Ecosystem Notes #10
Social Leadership Daily - Day #834
In finding the language of the Forest, it often falls to what yields, and what resists.
It is a vocabulary of connection, but not simple addition. More accurately, the language I find describes tensions, and timescales.
Types of connection that can fluidly persist - as the river cuts the valley - or that collapse - as the branch breaks.
The leaf that falls, revealing the bud underneath, that grows, to fall again.
The Forest is a landscape of shadows: traces of what came before. The rings of the tree, the scrapes on the bark, the strata cut though by the stream, revealing a map - a tracery - of seasons past.
This work is still new, but January is drawing to a close: already I feel we are leaving behind the depths of winter. The frosts may return, but rain is our dominant feature today. The landscape is becoming sodden, waterlogged. I continue to explore: this is the story of one ecosystem, mapped over time, through connection. It forms the backbone of a broader story - a story of interconnection.