[Seasons: Autumn X]
August is the *busiest* harvest month on the farm. Tomatoes are drooping with fruit; berry canes are bent over to the ground, offering mouthfuls of delight; the earliest apples are in and the plumbs are eye-level, daily snacks. The storage squash is close and all the brassicas—cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and the like—can’t be harvested fast enough. Fresh food is everywhere!
What happens in the garden at the end of summer appears to taper off in the fall and run dry in the winter. This is an anthropocentric perspective (which may be a phrase that's new to you, but all it means is seeing something from a human perspective). We’re busiest in August and our harvest baskets are spilling over with end-of-summer produce, but that’s not an indication of the abundance in nature.
If we remove ourselves from the center, we find that the black bear and the squirrel, for example, fill their “harvest baskets” in fall.
The influence of perspective on our understanding of truth cannot be understated. Our experience, while true, is not the dictator of Truth. What’s True must account for variance. The exceptions to the rule must find room in the Rule. The deviations need to be included.
Otherwise, we may think August is the most prolific month.
