Tree Wisdom (vol. 3, no. 7)

Here are a few things I’m sharing this month:

1. Question I’m living with:

“Three in Transition” by?David Ignatow:

I wish I understood the beauty

in leaves falling. To whom

are we beautiful

as we go?

2. Quote I’m considering:

• “When a tree is cut down and shows its fatal wound naked to the sunlight, we can read its whole history in the bright disk of its trunk and gravestone: in its annual rings and deformities are faithfully recorded all the struggle, all the suffering and illness, all of the joy and flourishing, the lean years and the rich years, attacks withstood and storms outlasted. And every farm boy knows that the hardest, noblest wood has the narrowest rings, and that the most indestructible, strongest, most exemplary trunks grow high in the mountains, in constant danger.” –?Herman Hesse?(Trees)

3. Poem I’m pondering:

“Ancestors” by?Ada Limón

4. Something inspiring

• Moon Trees – trees from seeds flown around the Moon in 1971 and then planted upon their return.?Here’s where the Moon Trees are planted. (ht?Recomendo)

5. The blog’s still on hold as I write my?Rewild School?book. But I took a break from writing and made a playlist of the?Top Ten Working Man Songs.

Thanks so much. And, have a great day! – shawn