Snow on the ground in Northern Maine.  Rain coming.  I watch as representatives of the interconnected ecosystems prepare, bears, lichens, catepillars, loons.  The signals received.  The process of hibernation and completion lock in for the six months of winter.  And we say these systems are not conscious, not like humans, not reflective?  Humans are superior because we are reflective?  This last month may put a lie to all of that if indeed we were judged by our actions and the utter failure of our world wide systems. Luckily for us Nature does not judge us or if it does we do not listen. 

 Not much reflection occurred before the systems created by humans failed.  This lack of reflection is not what happens outside my cabin door.  Everything flawlessly, hesitantly, boldly at times adjusts to the subtle indicators of change.  Why?  Because it seems to me other species and their systems which acknowledge impermanence demand observation, monitoring,evaluation, reflection, action, trial and error, failure, and adjustments,constant adjustments,  sometimes just watching, waiting.  Rarely in the woods do I find blundering, blame.  My understanding of resilience comes from respecting what I see and desperately attempting to mimick though I have so much to learn to do so elegantly, smoothly.  I watch trees bend in the wind some almost touching the ground, snow falling heavy on their trunk to keep them there for months and in the spring they adjust, not completely, the experience is evident to the close observer, but still alive with sap running.  We have much to learn from ecosystems and their residents.  We think ourselves so separate from it all, so above the fray of Nature.  Ludicrous!  Today watch something closely for hours, something not human, watch it really work, ready itself, watch the consciousness of ecosystems demonstrate the need for incorporating resilience with each second…it is not a coat one puts on when it is convenient, Nature wears resilience each millisecond…it is within, without, and all about. 

Nature and resilience are one and the same thing.  Humans appropriate resilience like a concept that we the reflective specie found laying around not being used.  Will we ever humble ourselves in order to accept impermanence as the given? and therefore resilience as the air we breathe, the water we drink?

Perhaps in these confusing days of utter failure of systems some will begin to go deeper in the questioning of how we got here.  If we are sincere and have integrity  we will gather and begin a journey ending in new skin to weather the new realities, new eyes to see to watch and wait, new communities of systems we thought ourselves separate from, and were never meant to control.

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