Starting Out - My Intention

Today is Mother Earth Day.  

This is finally the right time, the right place and the right moment for me to give birth to some mindful action that has been many, many years in the making...

Taking a deep breath, I re-focus my intention & take the mindful action I was always meant to take - to follow through on creating my own poetree of poetry. 

The story of how I came to this point of action is long and winding.  It will come out.  Someday.  In a variety of shapes and forms.  But the final molecular seed of action was planted earlier this week when a serendipitous turn of events brought me face-to-face with a poetree display.  I immediately loved the connection to trees and the playful extrapolation the word poetry provided - ironically a connection I had never made before, but now cannot help but wondering if tree is in the word poetry for a reason I never understood before...

The poetree I saw was beautiful.  It was created as a part of the National Poetry Month Display at the new Halifax Central Library.  The tree is made from the grey branches of a deciduous (leaf-brearing) tree.  I could not tell what kind of tree from the branches - maybe someday I will be able to... Since the branches had lost the leaves of its own, new leaves were being added to this tree in another form.  The new leaves were made from small, multi-coloured pieces of paper on which library visitors were encouraged to share poetry of some form and then and add the poetry leaves to the growing poetree.  Although it apparently started with only a few small branches, the collaborative community art project grew quickly so that larger, additional branches had to be brought in to accommodate the growing number of poetry leaves.  The day I saw the poetree it was absolutely laden with poems... It was drooping - but not in a sad way.. Instead this kind of drooping brings to mind the bounteous look of a cherry tree drooping with the weight of beautiful blossoms.  I have been lucky enough to see a few cherry trees like this in my lifetime and it is something to behold :)  Part of the reason for its awe inspiring ability is because the cherry tree only stays blooming with beautiful fragrant blossoms for a very such a short time and can be easily missed.  But the other reason for the joyous splendour of these trees is that they are absolutely full of life, energy and beauty that is brimming to be shared - eagerly enthusiastic blossoms, openly greeting all visitors who take the gentle care to notice them...

I've digressed - I know - it happens to us all - I know, but it happens to me a lot.  So get used to it :)  I know I ramble and get on tangents, I always have & likely always will - it is just that the tangents are now longer, and harder to descipher my way back from... BUt don't worry I will get where I need to eventually - I have been learning to make sure to build inuksuks, and leave trails of rock (not breadcrumbs) so that I will always be able to find my way safely home ;)  Home again, home again, jiggedy jig :)     Take gentle care, SLRSB