Wed
Dec
5
observation
It is amazing the extent to which people can ignore their surroundings. The rapidity of the seasons changing is one example. I felt oblivious, looking at the ground beneath my feet as I walked to and from class every day. If I noticed anything, it was that there were more and more leaves crunching underfoot. When finally I looked around campus, actually observing rather than letting my eyes drift without being aware of what I was seeing, I realized that the trees, which had been covered with green or red or yellow or even brown leaves when last I noticed them, were bare, skeletal and dead. Most people, myself included, effectively ignore the death cycle of the early winter.
