photosynthesis for beginners

Photosynthesis for Beginners is a love song for summer, a dream of flourishing in the drought. It is the cultivation of the light-receptive qualities involved in learning and change. It is change itself, as color spills into, out of, and back into the landscape as we grasp onto the ever more dramatic lengthening and shortening of daylight. 

What peculiar vision do we latch onto while resting under an oak in the heat of a high summer afternoon? What clarity can we find only when tired, covered in earth, the shade calling us to sleep. It’s getting late, the light is waning, did you love well today? Did your dreams spill out and saturate the grass, turning the dry ground lush?

If in each morning we situate ourselves at the beginning of our lives, at the beginning of whatever our particular situation happens to be calling on us to now learn, then we find ourselves on the precipice of growth, on the precipice of our true dreams - the ones we shy away from, the ones that are too bright to look at for long. If we turn away, again and again, from the gardens of our heart, then the drought will overtake them. Instead, step again and again, into the imagination, pulling along with you the light and love necessary to make the flowers grow, to help the tomatoes ripen, to let the Earth know that you are listening, that you are responding.