She is always in the process of balancing and rebalancing, never holding on. Living on a pristine island in the throes of massive development, I watch Mother Nature move and sway. The foxgloves spring up in abundance along every new road. Working in my garden this spring, I attuned to the roses. Nature never withholds on the basis of what the future may bring.
Nature writes the laws for being a female.
Recently, I stood at the base of an old-growth fir. I thought of our society s emphasis on youth, of women spending money on facelifts, of female attitudes toward menopause, toward turning forty, or fifty, of men s disparagement of older women. Do we look at the old growth fir and say, She s over the hill. Take a look at this sexy young sapling over there. Until we see the truths of the feminine and live them, we cannot blame men for their attitudes.