A Single Tree's Grounding Force

Looking at a single tree, experiencing its potential in the winter, and its beauty in the summer and autumn, sometimes allows me to observe my emotions. There is something ancient and wise in a tree's connection between the earth and the sky that grounds me again.

It has been an emotional day. I visited my first yoga teacher in a hospital to find that she has lost her sense of reality even though she still knows me. She will never be that strong, independent person I used to know, again.

In the afternoon I watched an amazingly positive film called Demain (Tomorrow). It was so moving, especially the section on Finnish education which is just like Britain was in the beginning of the 1970's when I was privileged to be a young teacher. Maybe I am getting old and maudlin. I needed to stop the car and commune with this old Linden tree under the leaden skies at the end of the day, to breathe in some of its stability.

Rambling on, aren't I, but must not forget to thank you for the wonderful comments etc. on yesterday's windy high mountain scene. Hope your weekend was a happy one.