There is a tree outside my window. It grows in many directions and has been cut many times in the past. Gardeners have tried to shape it. Some have tried to support it as it leans.
Now, I have come to live here. It is my turn to tend the tree. As I look it over, it is not the most beautiful tree I have ever seen.
I look close and I see a family of woodpeckers have hollowed out one of the dead branches and made several homes.
I imagine the life of that tree. The growth, the loss, the continual storms it weathers. I think of all the times it struggles to stand straight and tall. How it grows back when it looses a limb. How it holds to the ground to support itself.
Imagine the "Growing Pains" it must feel as it stands alone. Imagine the eternal struggle to reach for the heavens. Imagine the home it gives, even as a part of it dies.
There are lessons all around us. Those struggles, you feel, are really just growing pains.
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Hi @twin-wolf thats a wonderful post, great words about an old trees life. Thanks to @foxkoit for sending me here.
Not much time at the moment, but I'll come back here, you should learn a little about tags, communities and getting more eyes on your post.
Greetings :-) B
Hi Beeber ! Thank you so much for your response. I need help with tags. What would be a good example of tags for this post? I really do not understand tags.
Hi @twin-wolf
Its not so much about the tags but also about posting into the "right" community
Unfortunately you already posted this and should never post something twice. This post would have been a real great one for #treetuesday wich is a tag hosted by @old-guy-photos
Another example for such a tag is #marjetfriday hosted by @dswigle or #wednesdaywalk by @tattoodjay
If you klick here on the tags you can see each tags posts to learn from them.
Its difficult to explain them all. When you see others posts you like, watch out where they post.
The tree here also could have fit into amazing nature community: https://ecency.com/created/hive-127788
Also feathered friends https://ecency.com/created/hive-106444 by @melinda010100 would have been perfect for the woodpeckers.
Or #thoughtfuldailypost by https://ecency.com/created/hive-109288 and @wesphilbin
Just examples, discover the communities but read their rules before posting there! Hope this was helpful, just ask if there arise new questions :-) B
PS: @ Melinda yes I know I finally should write THAT explanations post to not always write it again and again ;-) !LUV
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