Thatch and sod grass rising.Bunchgrass rising.

Water bunch grassing.

Sky bunch grassing.

Lichen following the gaps between the bonds of water (which are part of water.)

Balsam root lichening (in a tension between gravity and evaporation, which is one of the bonds of water).

Light balsam rooting (following the bonds of water, which are a form of light.)

Light bonding with water in tension with gravity (the race is to catch the coming rain, not with thatch but with dead, upright stalks not crushed by snow.)

Gravity and shadow are one.

Their alternation acts as a pumping mechanism.

Balsam Root Rising

It’s a vertical equivalent of the way air is caught along the stalks of the dead, water-soaked grass below. In both cases, gravity is being denied.

These ecosystems of gravity, carbon, water and light, which mine the lines of tension between them are complex. We have eyes that are formed from the same process, and which are capable of measuring them to a high degree of refinement, not outside of the process but within it, as part of it.

Culturally, that gift is called “an appreciation for beauty.” We say “I have found my creativity” when we tap into it, but it was there all along.

Only words hid our selves from us. With a new vocabulary, we can follow more complex conversations, although built on the same grammar. Look how light is laid on the ground of the mind in tension with gravity and water!