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Living the Green Life
As a child building little houses in trees not only occupied my time, but gave me a respite from the adult world. A sanctuary in which to retreat into my own kingdom for a while. I felt free and safe and happy. I realize now that I was living the green life. I was starting to speak green.
I was sitting in one of my favorite spots under the old walnut tree one day, leaning against the rough bark, watching the sky through a pattern of lace through some skeleton leaves. The limb high above me forked and took a slanted horizontal turn. An idea was born.
I requisitioned a hammer and a rusty coffee can full of miscellaneous nails from the wash house. The stairway to heaven proceeded up the side of the tree one little crooked scrap-board step after another. When at last I reached the forked limbs, my arms and the side of my face were scratched, but I perched triumphantly on top of the world, picked a green walnut and threw it as far as I could, heady with adventure.
By the time the cicadas sang dusk into night, I had wrestled a piece of warped plywood out of the chicken house, failed numerous times, but finally succeeded in hoisting it up the unsturdy steps and nailed it on top of the walnut fork. I laid down on my back, kicked off my shoes and pillowed my head with my arms. The skeleton leaves now filtered moonlight and waved hypnotically in the breeze. I was marvelously happy and at home. I was living the green life.
I started this website to share green blessings. To share all the wonderful things the Creator put into plants. Come on along. We may not build tree homes, but you’ll learn to speak green and live the green life. And maybe even be marvelously happy.
Elizabeth