The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.—Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper … [Read more...] about Flexibility Like Bamboo
Trees
Wisdom’s Root
Wisdom has its root in Goodness.—Ralph Waldo Emerson … [Read more...] about Wisdom’s Root
Rootedness
The soul wants to keep us rooted in the ground of our own being, resisting the tendency of other faculties, like the intellect and the ego, to uproot us from who we [truly] are.—Parker J. Parker … [Read more...] about Rootedness
Mighty trees will fall …
Mighty trees will fall, their trunks becoming fertile ground for new growth and life yet unseen. So it would be with our elders and all of the generations to come after them.—Barbara Becker, Heartwood … [Read more...] about Mighty trees will fall …
Trees
I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the earth’s sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all day,And lifts her leafy arms to pray;A tree that may in Summer wearA nest of robins in her hair;Upon whose bosom snow has lain;Who intimately lives with rain.Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree.— … [Read more...] about Trees
