I fell in love with a tree today
I fell in love with a tree today. Proposed. I did. She said, “Yes, but… only if you embrace and entwine our roots so as to truly inhabit and live…
I fell in love with a tree today. Proposed. I did. She said, “Yes, but… only if you embrace and entwine our roots so as to truly inhabit and live…
This is a story of identity that can be rewritten in each of our spirits, minds and bodies as we come to experience and know and identify our self—with Life itself, with nature. Inherent within this new-yet-ancient story is a biognosis, the moist intimate wisdom-knowledge of Life, of our place within it. It is a story that each of us must claim for ourselves if we are to know and embody the birthright of our own belonging and the resiliency of nature as our own.
The value of a good story has been appreciated ever since our ancestors first sat around a crackling fire on a dark night and, with full stomachs, shared the adventurous…