It’s been one of those weeks where distraction, tiredness and collecting thoughts to write something more substantial weren’t going to happen.
After another weather event, which we happily survived, I consider us lucky that the storm ex-cyclone didn’t cause more havoc or loss of life. I do love Mel from Life One Big Adventure‘s saying, “I’m a lucky duck,” and we were lucky ducks last weekend.
This week, my mind wanders back to a time when there were fewer storms about, and I could get out tramping, eating my lunch, and staring up into the sky and canopy to admire those gorgeous, tremendous gods of the forest, the mighty kauri.
A tree
A focus
A place
to rest weary eyes
For a moment.
When the world is blurred brutal
consider carefully your viewpoint.
Follow a kauri's simple form.
In a time of temperatures rising
feel the stones strongly cool
Your feet.
Firmly gripping Aotearoa.
Another tramp to view the magnificent Kauri can be read HERE.
Life at No. 22 
Struggling to respond to your ‘blurred brutal’ world, Suzanne. I feel weary too this evening, with much less cause xx
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It always amuses me what everyone grabs from what has been written. Not “my” world as such, a generalisation of how our world is at present and counteracting that with connecting to something positive – Papatūānuku, (earth mother).
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The interpretation depends on your own state of mind, hon. Sorry I didn’t make the connection, or rather overlooked it xx
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There’s absolutely no need to apologise, Jo. Nothing is taken that seriously. All good xx
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Nature is so healing (when the storm passes, of course). I was thinking the other day about no matter how we may devastate animal species on this planet, the plants will remain.
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So, very true. After a storm, I’m continually amazed by how resilient our neighbourhood pohutukawa trees are and other species which are also very old and large. Even when a tree is felled, it fosters new life or continues to live in different ways, which I is amazing to come across when walking around the bush areas.
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Fabulous
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Cheers, Sheree.
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We went to visit Tāne Mahuta last year. It was impressive but to me spoilt by the weight of human presence. We then went to see Te Matua Ngahere (the oldest living kauri), a 20 minute walk through a regenerating kauri forest each way that was a far more immersive and tranquil experience – and without the hordes of tourists.
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I agree, though we visited way before it became a touristy destination. There’s a few younger Kauri around the Bay of Plenty to enjoy as long as they control the Kauri die back disease.
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A fine metaphor for today’s world
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Thanks, Derrick, and I hope you’re both enjoying the early spring weather in your lovely garden.
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🙂
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Good to hear you came out of the wild weather relatively unscathed. There’s no such thing as ‘normal’ weather anymore… 😦 Melx
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You’re right there, Mel. Crazy weather. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s going to improve. Especially for those living on the coast x
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True and it refuses to rain on us in the inland! We are never happy! 🙂
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Exactly, too dry and too wet, never equally dispersed. I think the intensity of the rain storms is quite scary.
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We are a World of extremes now…including our politics… 😦
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