Get to Know the Neighborhood, Day 5

Yesterday you got up close and personal with your plant.  Now let's zoom out.  Walk away from your plant ten or twenty feet.  Go as far as you can get from the plant and still see how it sits in the landscape with everything else.  Try to get a sense of how it fits.  Imagine a circle around your plant and think of that circle as a neighborhood.  Who lives nearby?  What are the traffic lanes around it?  What is its community?  Who does it interact with?  Does anybody come to visit?  Just be imaginative and consider its community.

If you haven't started recording any of your experiences you might want to.  Get a notebook and entitle it.  Use your plants name.  Maybe your title will be something like, "Life with Bob"  Your going to want a notebook because soon you will be writing and sketching about your plant for some of your exercises.  Those exercise though will be quite different than your Kamana work.  Your going to stay focused on imaginatively getting better acquainted with your plant and it's life.