Next Fall take a stroll through the woods and look for an undisturbed vertical slice of land where leaves have layered up over the years. Just stare at it. You will notice that the top layers are varying fluffy colors of red, green and yellow. The layers compact and become indistinguishable the further down you gaze. Eventually the leaf bed simply fades into dark soil and or sand.
One slice of land like this represents decades of life and death where in Spring the leaves emerge in the joy of new life and in Fall they float to their death. Or do they?
As the layers of “decay” teach us, the health of new leaf life is dependent on the contribution of those leaves that have come before them.
Here nature gives us another poignant but subtle lesson regarding the natural cycle of human life, and how important leaving a rich contribution is.
In the leaf realm, each leaf contributes equally. In the human realm, each human chooses weather their contribution will be rich or paltry. Therefore, the prosperity or poverty of future generations is now on the branches of the human family tree.
