I dislike motivational speakers. And as you will see, thinking about them galvanizes me to do something in response. In this case I was looking through my recent sketches which feature trees and I remembered that a motivational statement had appeared on my daily motivational desktop.
Here's the statement:
“If you don't like where you are, change it. You're not a tree.”—so says Jim Rohn who has turned telling people what they already know into a million dollar career.
As it turns out, movement, as we experience it, is a very limited attribute when one looks at all the living and nonliving things on this planet. So maybe "not liking where you are" is not a matter of getting up and moving like Okies en route to California. There are other time tested strategies. You might consider thinking like a tree: provide food and shelter to other living things, invest in your unseen roots, appreciate your tough skin and brighten the corner where you've been planted.
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| trees and wall 05-12-17 ink |
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| The island 05-15-17 ink, charcoal |
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| Willow tree 05-16-17 ink, charcoal, paint stick |
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| Pine tree 05-17-17 ink, charcoal, paint stick |
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| reflections of trees 05-25-17 ink, charcoal, tusche, paint stick |
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| drawing gear 05-12-17 |
A few days ago, I read in the internet, I no longer know where, a Zen Buddhist poem, and this was something like this: I looked behind me and saw the two trees and I asked them: Could you keep company with an old man like me? And although the trees could not speak, they promised me, that we three would stay friends for a lifetime.
ReplyDeleteI mean this is a diffent look at trees than Jim Rohn. Dear Rob, thanks and best wishes
Thank you dear Klaus. You are a tree in my forest.
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