Bruce, I like the first paragraph of your post about walking in the October weather very much as a description of what happens when you go to the non-content level of experience.
Sometimes I encourage people to shift the center of their experience from eyes/head to heart/chest. Your experience with the tree seems to go in that direction, but the ‘actual’ direction you took was just the opposite. That seems to fit very well for space, in which all directions are in the end the same direction, which is no direction at all. But if anyone finds that confusing, please ignore it. Just being playful.
I notice that except for Bruce’s post on which I just commented, people have not had much to say yet about the expanding exercise. Did everyone find it, posted on October 29? Kathleen will post it in the ‘guidance’ area soon.
Jack