“I’ve walked with eyes wide open to the wonder of the world.”
– Robert Service in Wanderlust
For many years I used that stanza from Robert Service’s poem Wanderlust in the signature of my emails. I think it’s a wonderful mantra for life. It gives me chills. I’ve walked with eyes wide open to the wonder of the world.
I can only imagine living each day with eyes wide open to wonder. It’s something I most definitely aspire to doing. Trees are something that always fill me with wonder — so I wanted to share a few of my favourite tree pictures with you. I admire the way they give and take and give — always seeming to give so much more than they take. Their root systems, branches, leaves; trees provide metaphor for everything. Family. Life. Death. Being. Moving. Sharing.
I suppose at the heart of it, I’m just a tree hugger. I admire the tenacity of trees. Their resilience. How they hold ecosystems together.
They really are the glue. They stop everything from eroding into oblivion.
The Secret Life of Daydreams 