How about the jungle - or the varying forested ecosystems that surround Vientiane? It lends itself not to rigorous exploratory vista hopping, or magnificent leaf falling birch peeling scents that my native landscapes exude. It is swollen, overgrown, chaotic, but somehow mysteriously enchanting. Often it makes me miss the ecosystems I have grown up in.
It is amazing how seasons, flora, fauna, things that you don't always consciously interact with everyday shape one's persona. Is it appropriate to allocate times in places that remind you why you love what you do? In locales that leave you breathlessly etching your personal grain against that of the patterns around you?
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| Josh and our guide sharing stories on the way into the jungle - notice the rainy season footbridge on the right. |
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| Elephant viewing tower - no luck this time. |
Not hostile; not savage or sullen this ecosystem contrast - just a minor disturbance that trims down those stolid assumptions of old and replaces them with new sprigs and sprouts - the kind that hold secrets as to the way life could be lived. These are the internal growths that photosynthesize not with photons but with the stuff that shakes one out of the everyday-always existence into the feeling-growing-rooting life that is possible.
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