Autumn is a time of abundance and harvest in the natural world. Some resources we store for later use, and some we utilize when they’re available and fresh. Often we may not see how what we’ve gleaned from one season of life may serve us in another. Or sometimes we are given an abundance of two seemingly disparate resources – only to find later that they are the perfect complements to one another. This piece serves to remind us of this truth. It incorporates the John Muir quote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”