Attunement

My husband and I traveled  to the Rocky Mountains to see family and friends and to celebrate our 25^th wedding anniversary last summer.  The experience of being in the splendor of the mountains was refreshing and invigorating, yet following the continental divide down from Montana, we also found a tragedy taking place within this landscape.  The pine forests are stained red, dying from the inhabitation of the pine tree beetle.  Mountainsides of trees have been infiltrated with beetles without the long periods of freezing temperatures needed to stop their spread.  The blight caused by the beetles has contributed to the recent spread of fire there. Upon reflection, I have found similarities between myself and these vulnerable trees under invasion by the pine beetle, though my enemy goes by a different name.