patches

Any journey you take through the landscape, you'll notice that the landscape is rarely uniform. It is more like an assembly of different patches.

If you disagree, and you are walking through a landscape that seems to be all the same, you're probably just walking through a very large patch. Remember that our perception becomes very limited if we measure everything against our human size, human senses and human experiences.

Even the water's surface on the lake is a mix of patches. Different textures depending on what is going on above and below. The movement of the current or the wind, or the movement of the water's inhabitants. Some areas are absolutely still, while others are ruffled and unsteady. Patches of differences and opposites, chaos and ease, movement and stillness, roughness and softness, all in one lake, making it whole and complete.

Anywhere there is life, life adapts to its surroundings. Life becomes adapted to a specific place, at a specific time, and the environment it creates becomes a patch, like a tiny ecosystem of its own. Then there is exchange between patches. It can and will affect them for better or for worse, and the different patches become entangled. This is where we may have harmonious coexistence, or competition as a matter of survival. I don't know if I am making any sense, but I feel like we can learn so much about adaption, survival and coexistence from looking at patches in nature, and how different organisms, plants and animals have created bonds and allyships to thrive better in their environment.

We always look so far beyond for answers that often have been right in front of us the whole time. And sometimes the problems we face encompass the solution.