“It was my favorite tree,” she said with love and peace.
I caught up with her on the trail this morning, one of the Tree Lover Kin I had not yet met. She was not wailing and crying over her lost friend. (Perhaps she’d already done that.)
She was standing yards away amidst the fresh growth of pines. Looking up at the sun and blue sky shining down through them, a grove that might even have descended from her Dear Favorite.
“I placed heart-shaped rocks by Her roots for years. I looked for them, and they seem to have found new homes.”
As I walked on, I was tuned by her love to ALL the many evergreen trees along the trail. Some knee high. Many teenagers and parents and yes, grandparents, too. Alive. Thriving even.
Evergreen does not mean we do not die.
Through her wisdom, though, I was reminded that even amidst all the falls and cut-up trees on my trail, Nature rebuilds. Is always and all ways building. Amidst destruction. Amidst winter ice. Amidst the spring season sure to come.
Perhaps we can “take with us” the memories and deeper connections we have shared with our favorites — trees, people, and we-spaces that once lived and now could be… inspiration and energy for our future thriving.
Thriving Anyway. It my current mantra as my family re-builds here in Asheville. Noticing the beauty in what remains. Taking with us the hearty feelings while re-tuning to the yearnings rising now.
What are you yearning to build?
I find my heart appreciating those who are taking the events in their lives and their world and using the contrast to build and re-build what can serve our mutual Thriving… now and onwards.
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With love,
Rick ~ ThrivingNow
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P.S. Adira says, “I built it! Then it crashed down (because the Big Bad Wolf blew on it). So, I shall re-build it in a fresh way now!”
