Today I was reading on this beautiful lawn on this beautiful day with the wind caressing my face and ruffling my school papers. I was under a tree and these tiny little pieces of dirt kept on falling on my papers. It made me think about how fast succession happens and nature will cover all traces of humans with dirt. Such tiny little movements, but they add up to such great powerful actions over time. Like streams carving mountains. I briefly wondered if the pieces of dirt were falling from the tree but kept on working. Later, I looked up at the tree again and noticed little caterpillar nests. Looking at other trees, they were everywhere. I surpressed thoughts of gross bug nests and thought about the cute green caterpillars within. "It's all part of nature la la la." I kept working and more little pieces of dirt kept falling. There were even cute tiny insects running around on my papers. Nature everywhere.... Suddenly, I had a thought, and looked closely at the dirt. Yes, they did bear a striking resemblance, though miniature, to the droppings of my leaf bugs on my desk. It took me a few more moments to register that I was being crapped on by caterpillars. I tried to be cool about it: “part of nature, hmmm hmmm hmmmm, so tiny, really just processed leaf, hmm hmmm hmmm” but I got up pretty quick and moved to the center of the field.
Posted by bluprnt at April 29, 2005 07:18 PM