In a world that swirls by sometimes, trees are there taking the wind by storm. I can look up to a one-hundred-foot white cedar in my front yard and see the wind pass through it. A pinecone falls down. This is serendipity to be sure, isn’t it? Wind passing through the branches at just the right time to knock that tree right up. And from that kind of chance, a windfall is born. A new little baby sapling comes into this world. The earth plane. For it is directly into the materiality of earth, air, water, the light around us that the great, majestic tree places its roots, what even as the tree is one day felled has left a stable foundation all around my household. My material home is now much better protected from earthquakes, as well as my heart. My place of worship. When a hundred-foot-tall, hundred-year-old tree comes down it’s a kind of miracle to behold. Especially in this day and age when a neighborhood arborist, a modern-day lumberjack goes in to cut down only those trees that are about to come down anyway. We don’t “clear cut” as they once called it from the earth anymore. Now there are much wiser people, who know that we are living as part of ancient coding and traditions. Like the little saplings and wildflowers below, we can tap into this rhizome of metaphysical nourishment and cultural knowledge encircling us. If we keep an adorable Douglas fir or Norway spruce at Christmas in a container at our doorstep, one day the tree will bust out. Adorable is a word that is used in the sense of esteeming what is sacred in the proper context. It is the adoration of the evergreen life force as it goes from being a cutie pie itty bitty sapling to the majestic, tallest living creature on earth. The glorious tree will tell us when it’s time to bust out of that what’s its current container, before it becomes a kind of prison. The spiral of life continues, ever upward. The trees have been here much longer than we have, each day I listen better and better to their ways of being such that I may follow their holy light source.