Deeply Rooted

20190621_182638Pictured is the impressive visible roots system of a Moreton Bay Fig. Massive, sculptural things – and that’s only what you can see.

By way of contrast, a recent storm pulled up a shallow – rooted olive tree in my   backyard and deposited it over the clothes line.

It takes a storm to finds out what your foundation is like.

Like a tree, if we are not deeply rooted we are deeply rooted (that is not a circular nonsense, as I mean the second “rooted” in the Australian / NZ vernacular meaning, “screwed”or “f**ked”).

That means knowing what your mainly silent, often invisible core really is all about and where you have come from.

I hope that you are totally rooted in the more positive sense of the word…

 

 

Twisting Branches (Meandering Life)

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Angel Oak Tree, Johns Island, South Carolina, April 2017

“Life meanders in this way. Art gives us all kinds of images of this living path that goes where it is going in a series of incomplete circles.There is the serpent of knowledge in the garden, the twisting pathway through the maze, the caduceus, or staff, of Mercury, and there are the twisting branches of the tree of life.Living is a meandering pathway across the void.”

William Bridges, excerpt from ‘The Way Of Transition’