...And The Green Grass Grows All Around
You're supposed to look at the big picture. That's
where you start. "The tree is in the woods and the
green grass grows all around." Then, things start to
happen. You focus, you begin to look more closely at
the tree, make discoveries about it. Now it has a
limb, a branch...But you still have to remind yourself
of the bigger picture, too: this is a tree, and the
grass still grows all around. Then suddenly you notice
something different about this particular branch:
there's the nest. The nest really has nothing to do
with the branch, it's simply there, but it holds
possiblities that you might not have forseen. It's
still a tree and a limb and a branch, and the grass
still grows all around, but now there's the new
dimension of the nest and the egg, and this provides a
new, a different direction of focus: now there's the
potential of the egg to become a bird and a wing and a
feather. And, while you're focusing on each of these
new potential dimensions, you still must keep in mind
that it's part of something larger: feather on wing on
bird in yolk in egg in nest on branch on limb on tree
in woods. And the grass is still growing all around.
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