If nature strikes back. Anyway.

Was there storm last night, I asked myself on the way down to work this morning, when a broken branch came into my sight:

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But it wasn't that what I thought first. The earth around the trunk was broken, the heavy stone slabs been pushed away as if they were toys:

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Discovering this made clear to me, that the little earthquake caused by the roots of this tree was the reason for breaking the branch. It destroyed the balance, so the branch has to be sacreficed to get the balance back. It seemed to me as if the tree had given away a part of itself to make a step forward to its own freedom.

What's the story of this old tree, standing there for the pleasure of humans, giving shadow in the summer sun and while winter remembering us of rebirth ? He is a part of nature, he is one naturally being. All being, all nature got an inner desire to grow, to develop. But how can this go on if surroundings keep you down in the ground if the earth around you isn't able to breathe because it's hidden below the construction of mankind? It's not possible to unfold yourself if there is someone whos trying to tell you how you have to be and how the expression of yourself has to look like.

The earthbroken root this morning. It reminded me of two things. You got to stay yourself to overcome obstacles. And the root of any unfolding is freedom. Sometimes you got to - break free!