Small story to tell:
Several years ago, I traveled to Nashville to attend a seminar in Animal Communication. The instructor was a woman from California, and the two-day seminar was well attended. One of the very first things that she did was tell us to go out to the front yard (of the home where the seminar was being held) and select one of the trees there -- which were all very old, very tall trees -- and to stand up with our backs against the bark of the tree, and ask the tree a question. We were to ask the tree to share its wisdom. I felt kinda silly doing this, but chose one of the trees. Actually, the tree chose me -- it might as well have had a neon sign on it that said "come right here". So I leaned up against it -- and asked the question foremost in my mind at that time.
This is very woo-woo -- but it's true, and brings tears to my eyes this minute. The tree suggested that I move somewhat to my right. When I did, I was looking at a valley full of trees of all ages but most of them were old. And it occurred to me that that valley and those trees had been there forever. And the message that seeped into my mind was "there is time". Which was the answer to my question. And the tree was right.
Trees are amazing. They are underappreciated, and mostly overlooked unless they're a problem in some way. They are taken for granted, and shouldn't be -- our world would be a sorry place without them.
