Lindsey Heatherly

I don't know if it's true, but I'm reading this nonfiction memoir book about a woman's journey through the seasons of nature over the course of a year. She said the leaves change color because the tree sucks all the chlorophyll back into its trunk and roots and that's why the leaves lose their green color. I thought it was fascinating. That the tree would remember what it needs and take it at the appropriate time. It makes me think of our own bodies and how, when we are in the discomfort of receive mode, it can feel like our bodies and minds won't do what is necessary to make it through. And then we slowly make it back. We slowly take what we need, even if it feels like the opposite. Somehow we do it. Somehow we make it work.

Lindsey Heatherly