This morning a leaf beckoned me to open the deck door and walk outside.  Come, come, it whispered.  I am covered with dew.  I am a harbinger of autumn, even though most of your leaves still sing in green.  I have been eaten by caterpillars.  Perhaps even the caterpillar that fell on your hand that fateful night last week, Kathy. It's a caterpillar versus leaf world out there.  More accurately, it's an interdependent ecosystem out there with each precious organism depending on another for its very lifeblood.

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