Day of winter, officially, 2

DAY 1 OF WINTER, OFFICIALLY. N2. OR WINTER'S EARTH AS CANVASS. It is in the seeing, not looking. It is in the seeing through and seeing well, and like Don Juan the Burro in Castaneda's study of the curando, we come to this manner of seeing when we commune with the earth once more in winter time. I got out of the car with its heater, and the winter cold enveloped me, but the canvass of the universe with its palette of subdued hues was more important than the fear of the cold. Here is a life resisting the threat of death, and this plant is a proof of the capacity of the cosmos to renew itself, coax itself back to life in due time. BEAVERTON, 21 Dec 2016.