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years ago i bought a book called “meetings with remarkable trees” by thomas pakenham
i actually felt jealous, wishing i had been the one to write that book and to meet all those remarkable trees
of course there are remarkable trees everywhere and i feel very lucky and humbled to have met and lived with my share of memorable trees
i feel worried about the rate at which trees are disappearing from our planet, but it just gives me all the more motivation to spend time around trees wherever i am and to appreciate their truly amazing lives
i feel a particular kind of helpless grief when i see a tree friend that i pass regularly being cut down
or going somewhere i haven’t been for a while and looking forward to seeing a particular tree friend, only to find it is gone and i never got to say goodbye
or seeing a once beautiful tree butchered into almost unrecognizable form and hoping it will survive
i have a couple of trees in town that i have adopted and stop by once in a while to give them some water or put my hands on their trunk and let them feel how much i appreciate them
this is an idea/suggestion that i plan on talking up in my tree mother puppet stories— that we can all be tree helpers
i am excited about all the trees i will get to meet on my travels and you can be sure you will get to meet some of them too!
a tree friend i visited on my walk in gray whale ranch this morning
