Transcendental Forests: POETREE

Transcendental Forests: Planting New Growth — Day Seventeen

One Tree a Day Keeps the Heat Away. One Poem a Day: The Birthstone of May

Welcome to Transcendental Forests. I am planting POETREE.

Our mission is to take you on a journey of love, introspection, meditation, peace and tranquillity, all the while offering you that which has always transcended time and space: poetry.

All done with love and appreciation for Nature. ALL nature.

One Tree a Day

Keeps the Heat Away

One Poem a Day:

The Birthstone of May

Started the 11th of May.

Enjoy! :)

It’s Day Seventeen. Today’s message: The only voice worth listening to is your intuition. In other words, the voice of nature rather than the voice of reason.

Let Today’s Tree be an Every-day Tree!

Your soul is your beacon. All you have to do is follow it.

Listening to one’s heart may seem like a trivial thing to say, but this message has rippled through time in various forms, one more powerful than the other:

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)

“Staving off rejection, which always

hurt like hell,

I took the devil’s bargain, made a

stranger of myself.

If anything was wrong, I couldn’t tell.

So I didn’t see it coming, but now

it’s pretty clear:

I traded my own wisdom for a jury

of my peers.

I ignored you for thirty years.”

(Lyrics from Quietest Friend by David Bazan, lead singer of Pedro the Lion)

If you like music and you would like to read more about David Bazan and his profound wisdom, Casey Jarman’s article, The Devil’s Bargain, published in the Believer Magazine is a fantastic read. It touches on topics of religious and cultural programming, empathy, authenticity and the importance of connecting with one’s inner voice.

“DAVID BAZAN WAS A HERO TO A GENERATION OF YOUNG, QUESTIONING CHRISTIANS, BUT HE FORGOT TO SAVE HIMSELF”