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[sweetambiguity]

Autumn (rather feels like early winter, though) has hit Baltimore. If I remember correctly, the leaves turn colors as they produce less food for the tree due to the decrease in sunlight. The leaves create a "cork" where they are connected to the tree, and water from the roots cannot pass into them. They fall off when the wind blows and weakens the

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[whimsicalpops]

"To sit down, like a weed among weeds, and rustle in the wind!

Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

While the soul, after all, is only a window,
and the opening of the window no more difficult
than the wakening from a little sleep."

That part right there makes me stop each time. To remember to open up my soul and heart to the world and not to forget that life exist outside my head and my thoughts. To remember to gaze at the horizon.

[glowroper]

Awesome - thanks!

I was reading this and thinking, "This is either a very loose translation of some Rumi, or Mary Oliver I have not read yet."

[popking]

It was great to see you at Folsom..let me know when you make it back out. xo

[pixieslap]

wow- thanks for the explanation of why leaves fall off of trees.

i wonder... why i've never wondered that before.

i love the fall.