Heroes Not Zombies

This tree which someone has sawn through sometime shows the connections between life and death and the way we are created by our daily experiences.

First, although this is clearly a dead tree, a trunk left lying on the ground, you can see the new life springing from it, shooting up into the air searching for the Sun’s energies to capture them, reaching for carbon dioxide and water in the air to transform the invisible into the visible.

There would be no life on Earth without death, and no death without life. I’m not sure we are so good at remembering that. But you can clearly see, in this photo, how inseparable they are….life and death.

Secondly, as someone has cut through this trunk you can see the rings of the tree, each one telling a story of a year in the life of this tree. We haven’t really learned to read these marks terribly well but they tell us of good years and lean years, of the number of years the tree has been alive, and hint at incidents, traumas and recoveries.

How good would it be better able to understand what we can see right before our eyes?