We have a dogwood tree outside of our kitchen window that turns a bright red early in the Fall. It's a really big dogwood tree for a dogwood and it feels special to me because the dogwood is the Virginia state tree. It's like a little bit of me in the yard. It is already starting to turn red.
Tonight when I was looking out the window at that tree, through the rain, I got the sense that, one day, a lifetime away from now, when I am turning 72, I will look out this same window, at the same tree turning red on my birthday. I will think about my life's work, and this will be it. Fostering, gardening, teaching, hopefully instilling a kind and loving spirit in others. And it will have been enough. It was like I was looking at my future and my past in the same moment.
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