The J-Spot

Was there really a divine reason that Neo-christian religions, like the Pheryllt Druids worshiped the trees? Turn the other cheek. The idea almost seems foreign at times in a world where relationships are built over years and are dashed in a single moment’s misjudgment. You’d have to be a perfect person to love your enemies. But people are more vulnerable than trees. A tree thanks you with every breath you exhale. It grows an armor of bark, made from the thankfulness of your breath, the Mother’s water, and the Father’s light. Take a hatchet to its trunk and chip out a triangle for your doorstop. It will be hardly insulted, as you have given it life for all these years! It just stands in Thanks and offers what it can to its givers. A home for the creatures, air for the people, a conduit for the sun to the soil, a super highway for those with a voice ! The mighty oak, king of kings, will never say I forget what you’ve done for me. It will always see the true you. The willow will...

THERE ONCE WAS A STORY ABOUT A BOY WHO LOVED A TREE He ate fruit from it as a toddler. He played in its branches as an adolescent. He fell in love under it, while picnicking, as a teenager. He chopped it down and made a house out of it as an adult. Then, as an old man, he sat on the stump to think about his oldest and most useful acquaintance. Boy, did he see that trees were really useful! It took an awful long time for him to listen to a tree's advice. Perhaps, if he weren't so busy making something out of it, he would have heard the tree's whisper before it was gone. Has anyone ever been still enough to hear your whisper? A tree has. You know, trees have been found to have extraordinary capabilities. They can react to painful stimuli. Trees can communicate with other trees and animals. They can even defend themselves. Did you know the largest living organism on the planet is a grove of trees in California connected entirely at the roots? Also, If you refrigerate a...