Strong winds blow in cool air lifting the sky high to announce the coming of fall. Time goes faster without hearing the ticking of clock hands or feeling the weight on the wrist (It is no more fashionable to hang clocks on the wall at home, and people rarely wear a watch these days).

A little rattlesnake crawls across a trail quietly; he can be easily stepped over by the feet of a careless hiker. Two swans are foraging with ease on the river; they (or one of them) may die from a poisonous plant all of a sudden. A slate-colored junco watches alertly in a shrub; still, he could become a hawk's meal the next minute. And a young hawk makes shrill cries jumpy from one tree branch to another; maybe he is suffering from a fatal disease. They all just hang on so long as they are alive (None of them knows when and how his life will end).

One must learn to accept whatever is natural.

 

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