This season...

Bark, leaves, limbs - they all reside in this image of a blessed Japanese Stewartia that lives near the Centre Street Gate. The peeling bark and falling leaves, detritus of autumn, are evocative of this season of darkness and loss. Or maybe those words reflect my take on the current state of our world. The natural world seems to cope, to absorb whatever maddening limitation humanity places on it. Yet it is not without consequences just because those are sometimes hard to see.

 And as those consequences become more obvious, may we show the wisdom to listen more carefully and work to repair what we have so deeply damaged. Perhaps with diligence we can start to reverse centuries of karma.