Dawn After Night, Spring After Winter
Box Hill Trail
Post Ten
As you come to each post, stop for a moment to read each prompt and build your story as you walk. You can also play this at home on an imaginary adventure.
Listen to an audio recording of each post below.
10. the roots
Look around you. All the trees that you see are not just what is visible, the great trunks and branches above ground. You see the roots, and realise that they must burrow into the earth. How far do they go? How are they formed? Do the roots of the different trees meet? Are they communicating with each other, through the earth?
And what of the even smaller tendrils of connection. Using your sensors, you can detect a million strands, branching and connecting. You see the network of living organisms, mycelium, connecting plant roots together under the ground, helping them share water and food through a symbiotic relationship; these fungi form a subterranean exchange system between different plants in this ecosystem.
What do you tell your journal about these webs of connection? How fragile they are? How these organisms work together? Are you amazed? Or are you relieved to find a form of intelligence?
Complete your journal entry and continue straight ahead.
