Above is a living tree in Whatcom Falls Park. It's on the trail where I walk frequently. The sign appeared this week. The bark was stripped from the tree about a year ago.
It's a beautiful trees. I'm sorry that people have been stripping bark off of it. Your mention of of sharing some of the same DNA as trees puts me in mind of a documentary that I watched this week - Watermark, directed by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky. Perhaps you know of it already? There is one "story" in it, filmed on the Stikine River, where Oscar Dennis, a first nations man, speaks of how, if we were to stay up on the Stikine, and drink its water for a month or so, and he drank the water, because we are 70 percent or more water, we would be connected, and in the same way, the animals and the plants and trees would be connected to us through drinking or absorbing the waters of the Stikine. I thought that was a particularly wonderful way to think of how were are connected.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Welcome to "37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE)".
The photograph currently at the top of my blog was taken from my porch before sunrise on October 29, 2023.
"OLD GIRL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY" (the earliest name for my blog -- http://oldgirlfromthenorthcountry.blogspot.com
) came to life in early December of 2006 so that I could post a 42-year retrospective of my paintings and drawings and through that action, create a new relationship with the day the man I loved returned from Vietnam in December 1970. For a while (sometime after spring of 2008, which is when he died) my blog was "TALKING 37TH DREAM WITH RAINBOW (RUMORS OF PEACE)". For a number of years, it's been "TALKING 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE)." As of April 12, 2017 my blog was titled "37TH DREAM / TALKING 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE/LOOKING UP)". Somewhere along the way it became 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE).
To begin viewing the retrospective with narrative, scroll down to December 8, 2006, on this page:
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. -- Martin Buber (1878-1965)
It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.
-- Robinson Jeffers
The true end of a war is the rebirth of life; the right to die peacefully in your own bed. The true end of war is the end of fear; the true end of war is the return of laughter.
-- Alfred Molano
Enjoy every sandwich -- Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
Not in God's wilds will you ever hear the sad moan, "All is vanity." No, we are paid a thousand times for all our toil, and after a single day spent outdoors in their atmosphere of strength and beauty, one could still say, should death come — even without any hope of another life — "Thank you for this most glorious gift!" and pass on.
-- John Muir (1838-1914)
Philip Henslowe: Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do? Philip Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well. Hugh Fennyman: How? Philip Henslowe: I don't know. It's a mystery.
3 comments:
That is a beautiful tree.
I'm remembering once again that we have some of the same DNA as trees. Trees are family.
It's a beautiful trees. I'm sorry that people have been stripping bark off of it. Your mention of of sharing some of the same DNA as trees puts me in mind of a documentary that I watched this week - Watermark, directed by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky. Perhaps you know of it already? There is one "story" in it, filmed on the Stikine River, where Oscar Dennis, a first nations man, speaks of how, if we were to stay up on the Stikine, and drink its water for a month or so, and he drank the water, because we are 70 percent or more water, we would be connected, and in the same way, the animals and the plants and trees would be connected to us through drinking or absorbing the waters of the Stikine. I thought that was a particularly wonderful way to think of how were are connected.
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