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What If You Were a Tree
How different would your life be?
Let’s have fun and play for a minute…
Imagine that you are a tree; a deciduous tree growing along the banks of a small mountain stream in a small little valley with around seventy other trees also growing in that little valley. Let’s say that you are around 42 human years old (in tree years you are over eighty).
Obviously, you’ve lived your entire life in that beautiful little valley. Unlike humans, you cannot get up and move to the next valley over or, for that matter, across the country. That serene little valley is all you’ve ever known.
You have known the other seventy or so trees in that valley intimately. You’ve communicated with them all your life. You’ve lived with them all your life. There are no secrets between any of you. They are all your friends.
One sunny and warm afternoon over two hundred birds suddenly land in your branches. (What an exciting feeling is that?) While they tickle you with their birdsong you listen to them. With the sole exception of human females no one gossips more than birds. I mean seriously; they just won’t shut up.
You hear gossip about other trees, you hear gossip about other distant valleys and other states and even other countries. If you want to learn about distant places just…
