What is a canopy edge?

Hello and welcome.

For a while now, I have been wanting to make a site that could act as a place where I could be more disciplined about writing. Hopefully, in coming days, you will see reflections, poetry and reviews that I might have posted on other social media. I have been searching a space where I might experiment with ideas and forms and strike out in new directions.

The 'canopy edge' is a botanical term for the highest point of a forest, and/or where the forest means a gap or a new habitat. My favourite form of botanical 'edge' is when leafy trees come near to touching the surface of water bodies. The space between the water and the nearest leafy stem seems to shimmer and vibrate with the possible connection. The not-quite-touching is significant for me, and represents an equilibrium -- a compatible connection framed by the tension of opposites, a yearning across the smallest of gaps.

I love the Celtic idea of 'shimmering', when divine energy radiates an interconnectedness in and through living things. I recently watched an amberwings dragonfly perch on a single reed of grass above the water, coming and going from that perch as it hunted food. The breezes bent it over but still it clung, wings alive, in a water dance.

May the canopy edge be a space of shimmering for you as well. May you hear and see ideas that send you in new directions, and into your own abundant creativity.