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It’s mid-April and spring is rapidly creating new life all around us. The spring ephemerals are hurriedly blossoming before the trees unfurl their myriad of leaves and the world once again turns green.
Consider These Miracles —
the sprouting of a seed, life of a tree, migration of birds, honey bees sipping nectar, call of the loon! Spring is emerging all around us. If you go for a walk in the woods I swear you can feel the prana in the air.
Concerning trees and leaves… there’s a real power here. It is amazing that trees can turn gravel and bitter salts into these soft-lipped lobes, as if I were to bite down on a granite slab and start to swell, bud and flower. Every year a given tree creates absolutely from scratch ninety-nine percent of its living parts. Water lifting up tree trunks can climb one hundred and fifty feet an hour; in full summer a tree can, and does, heave a ton of water every day. A big elm in a single season might make as many as six million leaves, wholly intricate, without budging an inch; I couldn’t make one. A tree stands there, accumulating deadwood, mute and rigid as an obelisk, but secretly it seethes, it splits, sucks and stretches; it heaves up tons and hurls them out in a green, fringed fling. No person taps this free power; the dynamo in the tulip tree pumps out even more tulip tree, and it runs on rain and air.
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My heart swells with the wonder of it all. And once again I head out into the woods, stumbling with delight, at the emergence of life this spring as in every previous spring.
Consider these miracles my friends. Though they happen every spring, they are still miracles.
May you walk in beauty.
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