E is for Eagle Creek

Last Friday I had to facilitate a session on reflection, so I made everyone drive out here, gave them a list of questions, and just let them wander or paint or sit and look out the window with their headphones. It was fabulous. I do some of my best thinking in the woods.

I always start to get bummed as the trees lose their leaves. But the leafless winter forest is still beautiful in it's own way. I am reminded of a day last winter when I was driving through the country with a dear friend who is 40 some years my senior. From a place of grief and hope she said "Don't you ever wonder?... Everything needed for the leaves is in there right now, yet they look so bare"

In the picture there are two yellow leaves holding on for dear life. They've probably fallen by now, but something new is already inside, just waiting for the season to change.