Leaves in the sky
"Dust in the wind", leaves in the sky,
I always wondered where
songwriters got their creativity, especially at such a young age.
I
know it didn't come from plugging a few words into a search engine.
There wasn't even an internet in 1977, when Kerry Livgren
penned the
Kansas lyrics. Maybe he used a pencil or a typewriter, what
do I know?
I had to use google to get to wikipedia to find the info
about the
Kansas song.
I went for another walk today. I always wondered where those
houses in the woods off Mason Rd were, in relation to the other
landmarks in the area I knew, including my own house. I found
a
spot to walk into the woods without treading on someone's yard.
Walking always does good things to my brain, I now think
walking
in the woods does even better things. There is more
to this
world than cars and keys and computers.
The leaf skittered
across the sky, with no apparent destination.
Where was it going, what purpose did it's journey serve?
Upwards it shot, new energy propelling it.
Slowly it settled onto a new course, perhaps it found what it was
looking for.
But no, again it was uplifted by an unseen force.
As I watched the leaf on it's journey, my mind started a journey of
it's own.
How different is the movement of a leaf in the wind from the life of a
man or a woman?
Unlike the leaf in the wind, you and I have some control over our
immediate destiny.
Yet, in the long run, like the leaf, there is a wind that drives us.
I can't define it any better than that. Not yet. I
hope the wind reveals it's mysterys to me one day.
Eventually, I saw the leaf settle on someone's lawn.
Is it's journey over? I don't think so.
I'll bet another gust of wind picked it up and moved it somewhere else.
It's journey will continue tomorrow. And the next day.
Next year or the year after, it will probably become a new leaf.
One day, another wind will define that new leaf's journey.
And that wind will have the same source as the one today.
By the way, those
houses in the woods are on the cul de sac right behind my back half
acre.
Joe Wronski
November 1, 2010
