OUR NATURE'S "YES!"

From where I sit

here at our campsite,

I see thousands upon thousands 

of magnificently green healthy trees. 

Just one view of three mountains 

in a range of dozens,

if not hundreds of them,

here in the High Peaks region 

of western Maine. 

Nature’s abundance. 

Nature’s “Yes!”

But also, I see 

the nature of abundance. 

If we look, if we look deeply,

we see its “Yes!” everywhere. 

Lightning bugs. Tadpoles. 

Chickadees. Mosquitoes!

Seems all of nature operates

in an ecosystem of abundance

—with one exception—

we humans. 

In fact,

the only place in the world 

where we see

a true scarcity mentality 

is in our own minds. 

But clearly, thankfully,

it is not our deepest nature.