This tree caught my attention on my walk last week.....
brave beauty seems enhanced by a certain vulnerability.
I stare at it's bare and gnarled limbs, feeling a strange connection to it's condition.
I study it's offering,trying to figure out what kind it is.
Fruit clings and holds on, even though the tree is bare.
It offers and gives.
For it isn't wealth that makes us generous,
It's generosity that makes us wealthy.
Aren't nature's lessons always the most profound?
brave beauty seems enhanced by a certain vulnerability.
I stare at it's bare and gnarled limbs, feeling a strange connection to it's condition.
I study it's offering,trying to figure out what kind it is.
Fruit clings and holds on, even though the tree is bare.
It offers and gives.
For it isn't wealth that makes us generous,
It's generosity that makes us wealthy.
beautiful. I love the last lines: it isn't wealth that makes us generous, it's generosity that makes us wealthy. So true.
ReplyDeleteHello Lucy...Got caught up on all those lovely posts. It's fall there, too! Nice photos.
ReplyDeleteAnd you are so right that generosity makes us rich. Nice thought. Susan
Hi Lucy!
ReplyDeleteLove this!
And yes, it's so true, natures' lessons are the most profound.
I have to ask you...when I respond to your comments on my blog Lucy, do you receive them?
I'm just uncertain because it always shows as if its going somewhere else.
Can you send me your email address so I can put it in my files? ;)
Thanks!
All my heart,
Deborah
This tree offers a beautiful lesson.
ReplyDeleteLucy, what observation and truth in your wisdom today! Those last two lines are 'priceless'. Beautiful photos to illustrate your gesture, as always.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, to you, too!
Poppy
I could look at trees all day! I love your vision here, both in the photos and the words.
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