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| Dogwood Blossoms |
LOVING TREES
Loving trees …
Loving trees …
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| Gifted Honeysuckle |
A New Branch
After over thirty-six years of living from village to village around the world, at age 63, I bought my only home – a condo in Eugene, Oregon. Immediately I started planting trees and creating a tree nursery.
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| Crepemyrtle |
Three years ago, when I sold my home of twenty years, I left behind two Dogwoods, a Quince, and a Lilac bush. I gave away potted Honeysuckle and Jasmine.
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| Dogwood beside Hydrangeas |
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| Lilac Bush |
Two audacious movers transferred my hefty potted Japanese Maple, an Arborvitae, a Crepe Mrytle, three Jasmine plants, a Honeysuckle, peony and hydrangea bushes and numerous baby Maples to the driveway of a rented one-bedroom cottage.
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| Crepemyrtle, Arborvitae, Growing Maples |
Painfully, in fits and starts, a new life branch was grafted on the trunk of my life tree. I replanted the Jasmine, honeysuckle, peony, hydrangeas and flowers in the planter of the cottage.
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| Baby Pines |
My tree nursery increased as I captured numerous new starts of Maple and pine from the surrounding area. My potted trees flourished.
(To be continued)
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I facilitated, or participated in an unusually large number of village meetings during my 18 years of living in Africa. Only one location, however, from all those gathering places, remains unforgettable. It was in a village in the Eastern Province of Zambia where the village had a designated meeting space under half a dozen mango trees. They had been planted together in relatively close proximity many years ago. As the mango trees matured they formed a large interlocking canopy of lush green leaves rendering a natural beauty that beckoned people to come together. Never before or since have I encountered a greater example of sacred space for community interaction. I tried to take a photo but, of course, it was impossible to capture the true magnificence of those mango trees. They continue, however, now decades later, to remain a vivid and inspiring reality for me in my imagination.
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