Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Tree is a friend of mine
We play with fire

Once a man held me up
So I could pick an apple

Breezes from the sea
A row of trees and me

The grass is greener on the other side
The yellow flowers too many to count
Fascinated I am

The dog needs a walk
I go along to supervise


That’s funny

Slept on the ground
During ceremonies
I was not afraid then

I was a warrior princess divorced and filled with
All the things I’m going to go now
That I could not before

I was wanting to mention Janis Joplin
Me and Bobby Magee
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose…

Bless her heart
My teenager still wants to be her ( me12)

At that tree - at some of those ceremonies
The heart opens wide into the sky
Prayers come and go
For days
So many of those sacred prayers were answered
Grandchildren
I future generations
Old hippies like me
Watch carefully what we say around the trees

nice jaunt thru a life from past to present
your observations are valid.....keep getting it down
like sleeping on the ground, you can hear the buffalo
miles away

Yes, careful what you say ... "Too many to count..." I remember, I once tried to count the uncountable number of folds in a desert hillside. I was fascinated-- by an ordinary hillside!...

Speaking of trees, are you anywhere near Alerce Costero National Park? I saw this today:

In Chile's Alerce Costero National Park, there is a very big, very old tree. Alerce trees don't live fast and die young. They grow extremely slowly and live for a long, long time. As first reported in Science, Jonathan Barichivich says that the Alerce Milenario is the oldest tree of all: likely at least 5,000 years old, just after we entered the Bronze Age. That's a lot older than the previous record holder, an eastern Californian bristlecone pine thought to be 4,853 years old.

(Emphasis mine.) Wow. 5,000 years old! Incredible. I remember hiking thru 4,000+ year old bristlecone pines on Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park. That ... was an amazing experience ...

I will make a point of going there ! Thank you

Please send pictures if you go.

I googled it. I have a driver. I’m not sure if I can go until it warms up a bit.. but it’s at the top of the list- what an unusual tree

I will