Roots of an Apprenticeship Revealed

borrowedearth (57)in #memory • 6 years ago (edited)

Yesterday, was #treetuesday. I made my post about an Odd Old Oak that grows on my property.

In a reply to a comment by @smithlabs, I was sharing a memory and had an Ah Ha Moment! So, I politely ducked out of the reply and here we are.

Here is today's story starter and the beginning of the memory that was my muse.

The oddities are my favorite. I clearly remember a moment when I was young, I turned that corner. I found myself wanting to remove a tree I randomly saw because it had not grown like I thought it should, it wasn't even my tree, not even near my house.

I've shared about my apprenticeship to this mountain top. I continue to receive gifts that expand my understanding of what this apprenticeship actually is.

Select Highlights fromAn Accidental Apprenticeship To A Mountaintop.

I knew this land had lessons to teach me the first time I walked its hills and hollers...

I felt a deep knowing that this land was part of my wholing...my healing...my story.

I needed the land, and I felt the land had need of me as well.
Wholes Opportunities Balance

Select Highlights fromAn Intentional Apprenticeship To A Mountaintop.

Two springs ago, I received the message that this Homestead, this Mountaintop was waiting for me to "Show Up". I also knew I wasn't ready to show up in the way it Needed me to.

There were many lessons during these two years. This spring was different.

I have Shown Up... Fully, Humbly, Ready to Love and Be Loved...

And here we are today. Echoes dancing around in my awareness. Whisps of moments and feelings and knowings...

Let's begin again with todays story.

The oddities are my favorite.
I clearly remember a moment when I was young and I turned that corner.

I found myself wanting to remove a tree I randomly saw because it had not grown like I thought it should, it wasn't even my tree, not even near my house.

I remember, in the next moment, I felt a wave of violent atrocity, the energy of that thought had been given back to me.

This event shaped how I viewed the natural world around me. A world I suddenly saw myself as one with.

Sitting here today I am reckoning that this is my earliest memory so far of knowing I was spirit borrowing earth. All that my five senses could perceive was here doing the same.

It was a blessed moment of unity, the same feeling I first encountered as a child sitting in the kaliedescope of light cast by a stained glass window in my childhood church.

I've come to associate that feeling with being on path...