online: 19 june 2010 modified: 23 june 2010 19 june 2010 resting point
Alsace forest
...resting after a walk alongside a mountain stream and a climb
by a waterfall in drizzly rain... and now sun at this resting spot...
...pulse after 10 minutes rest is 80 beats per minute... it was 126 after the climb... so i guess this exertion is not too much for my heart and lungs etc...
...thundery sound of the waterfall and thoughts of the naturally-generated power and information that flows in everything from tiniest biological cell to heart or rock or ocean or planet and beyond...
... but these scientific names and categories do not describe the trees mosses sounds insects waterfalls rocks fungi themselves... beyond their names... the changed and extended world that one experiences as soon as one enters such a forest... the snails and slugs venturing to slowly cross the path where some are squashed... the fallen rocks and tree trunks attracting mosses and fungi... the tall pine tree trunks themselves... grey until they become green in the high canopy of leaves... in sunlight...
...but these words seem less and less able to describe what i see and hear here in the apparent complexity of actually quite simple changes and processes that comprise and generate the whole of this... or any forest or complexity...
...after sitting for half-an-hour my pulse is now 76 (its norm is 68)... as i watch an iridescent blue-green fly resting on my sleeve... and as i continue sitting on a moist log kept dry by a plastic cape... in safety and comfort and all this...
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