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This time around, needing hedge clippers to get job done, I cut weed-tree down as close to sidewalk as possible, and I must say that I had a sense of "Good riddance!" when I did so.
Well, I think it was very next morning, or two days at most, when I went outside to find bloody thing sprouting new growth. This time I quickly dug away at it with a small shovel, but I couldn't unearth it, and sure enough, new growth quickly answered call to arms.
At this point I was beginning to concede a shift in balance of power. Regardless of my superior education and specialized negotiation skills, weed-tree was prevailing.
What to do?
I knew by now that there was only one viable course of action. First, I found a new place to park my bike. Next, I went out and purchased some plant food and liberally watered and fed weed-tree every day. My little beauty grew gloriously and I soon began to lovingly trim it into a "bonsai" shape!
Some years later it is looking truly gorgeous!
Two questions come to my mind, and I wonder if they come to yours as well.
1. Can a weed-tree that is nurtured, praised, and pruned, still be considered to be a weed-tree? 2. Isn't life much grander once we realize that so much of what goes on is not under our control?
I only hope my spirit, can be half as strong as tree that has offered itself to me.
Charlie Badenhop is the originator of Seishindo, an Aikido instructor, NLP trainer, and Ericksonian Hypnotherapist. Benefit from his thought-provoking ideas and a new self-help Practice every two weeks, by subscribing to his complimentary newsletter "Pure Heart, Simple Mind" at http://www.seishindo.org/anger/index.html .