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Tree Talks 1 - 5

1.
The trees
have
been
lonely
even longer
than
we have.


2.
Ask them.
Just say:
"How long?"

Then,
be still
and
listen
very
slowly.


3.
You have
the ten thousand
audiences:
clouds,
trees,
stars,
not to mention
the unseen.

Ham it up.
Chew the scenery.
Or not.

Whatever.


4.
When the explosions
in the mindfield,
or mere
contemplations
of the minefield
become

crazy-making,

an anchor
for sanity
may be set
in a bottom
deeper
than any
taught in school,
mouthed in church,
or
researched at Sandia

by focusing
attention
in
a
tree.


5.
Not
your Visa balance,
not
your weight balance,
not
your tithing balance,
not
your family balance,
not
your Nielsen balance,
not
your cholesterol balance.
not
your Planck balance.

Your
balance
balance.
Your
tree
balance.

Which
maybe
you didn’t even know
you can have.

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