Thursday, May 22, 2008

Deep Roots


When I die, she said, I'm coming back as
a tree with deep roots & I'll wave my leaves
at the children every morning on their way
to school & whisper tree songs at night in their dreams.

Trees with deep roots know about the things children need.

~ Brian Andreas


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xoabb


P.S. - Click on Brian Andreas' name here or above if you'd like to visit his incredible website.

13 comments:

  1. Beautiful, Annie. Just beautiful.

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  2. Lovely roots picture and quote! We all need strong roots. I've always loved that header photo of yours! I find myself looking at roots and holes in trees and all sorts of things like that.....glad to know someone else does, too :-)

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  3. Wow, that is a beautiful thought. That one is a keeper on my desk.

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  4. Love it, I printed it and hung it on my fridge for my family to read
    Thank you for sharing :)

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  5. Ok, now I'm getting a complex. All I blogged about this week was gout, man hands.

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  6. Beautiful and now I must go read more of this man's words

    :-Daryl

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  7. absolutely love it and like mary I LOVE the header photo !
    Hugs Laura

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  8. What a lovely passage. And those roots, wow, immpressive.

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  9. That's really lovely, the perfect caption for your photo.

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  10. this is wonderful. I always love old trees. I wish I could hear the stories they could tell.. thanks for sharing.

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  11. Absolutely itriguing picture & poem. Brightened my day for sure.

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