There is nothing more beautiful than standing back and watching a tree. Particularly a coconut or spindly palm tree bending and flexing in the breeze. Watching the leaves dancing in the wind. Shaking it off and welcoming it back again.
The long spindly trunks deceiving us with their helpless looks. Only to see them buffeting the wind. Standing firm and strong against it.
Palm trees are some of the most beautiful yet resilient trees in the world. Whenever I look at one I feel a sense of peace come over me because they always conjure up thoughts of being in utopia. Paradise - a place of escape. And yet they can withstand the harshest of storms. The strongest of tsunamis.
This photograph I took reminds me of how fortunate I am to live in a place full of palm trees, blue skies and puffy white clouds. A place where we get more sun than rain. A place where the colours of the rainbow can be seen in most every place we turn. A place surrounded by turquoise seas.
This is my reminder today to breathe. To inhale. To appreciate. To go with the flow. To be in the flow. To look at this picture and imagine myself in those trees. A part of those trees. Listening to the stories they could tell of all they have seen, endured and heard. Of all that has come and gone. But still they stand. Growing toward the sun for nourishment.
Let’s all use this photo today when we feel we can endure no more. When we feel we are being stretched beyond what we thought we were capable of being stretched to. Look at this picture and see how small we really are in this thing called life. How things that were here before us will be here after us. Forcing us to question whether whatever is causing us aggravation at the moment worth it?
I should think not because in the grand scheme of things life is too short to worry about things we cannot change when we should be glorying in the beauty of the trees.
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