Today I saw a tree in pain.\u00a0 At first I thought her\u00a0bark had\u00a0shed and attributed it to the weather and normal cycle of tree life.\u00a0 Then I stepped in closer and observed several layers of her bark removed.\u00a0 Ripped out and thrown on the ground beside her.\u00a0 This eucalyptus tree’s inner light colored trunk was exposed to the air around it.\u00a0 Someone had interfered with her natural process.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Why would someone destroy the bark of an old tree?\u00a0 Why not let her shed her bark naturally?\u00a0 Why a tree which provides a wonderful fragrance, a healing oil, shade when you need it, and the oxygen we breathe?\u00a0 Why this tree which stands tall in our neighborhood and has watched us grow from baby to adulthood?<\/p>\n
I hugged her and let a few of my tear drops fall onto her wounded bark.\u00a0 Perhaps, my positive empathetic energy would help her healing process just a tiny bit.\u00a0 Or perhaps, she gave me more energy than I reciprocated, simply by making me feel her aliveness.\u00a0 Thank you dear eucalyptus tree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I saw a tree in pain.\u00a0 At first I thought her\u00a0bark had\u00a0shed and attributed it to the weather and normal cycle of tree life.\u00a0 Then I stepped in closer and observed several layers of her bark removed.\u00a0 Ripped out and thrown on the ground beside her.\u00a0 This eucalyptus tree’s inner light colored trunk was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,10],"tags":[255,117,31,116,115,26,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}