Hi all, good seeing and reading your responses.
@Faith-and-Hopeyour poem is wonderful. I found the feelings in it, that I relate to a lot, were stronger for how you structured the writing so simply, with only two words for each line. Life goes on indeed. Finding connection with the natural world is one of the best things for me during this time, reassuring in its constancy. Trees are the best.
@Exoplanet I thought they might not lose leaves, as with most of the foliage here. Reds and golds all year round sounds beautiful.
Here we have different blooming trees in different seasons: ponciana, frangipani, jacaranda, flame trees, and many more, also the colours of flowering plants. It's a lush landscape here.
Especially at my close friend's place, where I can't really go for now, it is in an almost-enclosed little valley with a large wetland nature reserve threading through the houses. When I'm there, I sometimes get a sense of how the trees, animals, insects, birds, water dragons, humans, are all one living community there, all interconnected.
I love the spiritual aspect of what you said about the vast cosmos being so wildly bigger than our own massive sun, bigger beyond comprehension. I too find comfort in wonderment at the vastness that we are part of. I find some measure of serenity in contemplating it all, some calm perspective. The microcosmic world is amazing too.
@eth I like that Kev Carmody quote. I too find a dawning quality to the image. For me it evokes hope for the earth.
@Bunniekins the ginger cat I love is a fluffy one too. Also a drooler. One of the reasons he loves me is that none of the family will have him on their lap because of the drooling. Cat starved me doesn't mind.
Hi @Teej @Appleblossom @Maggie @TAB (like your posts on the space theme too). Hi to anyone reading.
