The
first thing I heard this morning as I walked out onto the Eastern
deck was Acorn falling. I looked up and, sure enough, Squirrel was up
in Oak tree sending nuts to the ground. It had been weeks since this
process began. Day after day, Squirrel has been climbing up into Oak
tree, harvesting Acorns, and sending them Earthward. One by one they
fall, accumulating beneath the tree to be buried, or lost, or stolen
by Chipmunk.
I
was struck by Squirrel's … Squirrel's what? Was it persistence? Was
it hard work? These questions got me thinking. Squirrel didn't stay
up in the tree for the whole day picking every Acorn she could find.
She didn't toil for hours on end. Squirrel wasn't planing for the
worst, making sure she had downed enough nuts to get her through a
possible difficult Winter. She didn't even seem concerned that
Chipmunk was stealing part of what she had dropped. What was it that
let Squirrel know she was done for the day? What was it that brought
her back again to harvest more on subsequent days? How did she know
she when had done enough?
Today,
I will be paying attention to ideas that suggest that I can not be
prepared enough, or that I have to be concerned about all the
potential problems that I could encounter down the road. I will be
doing my best to keep my head where my feet are remember that there
is something about how Squirrel does what she does that keeps her,
first and foremost, from falling out of the tree.
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