You Don't Know, What You Don't Know

It’s been months since I’ve updated this blog. Every time I thought about writing something, it just didn’t seem interesting enough, or good enough or original enough, etc, etc. I guess that I am assuming that all my thoughts or writing should be original. I can accept that they may not be, in fact, they probably shouldn’t be original. Really, haven’t all the good thoughts been thought, all of the good saying been written? And yet, as a species, we are still messed up. So, maybe a little review is good. A little repetition. A little “getting back to the basics”. After all, this really is just for me. It’s my journal, for my thoughts and revelations. If someone happens to stumble upon it, hopefully they will at least find a tiny bit worthy of remembering and at best find a kindred spirit. In any case, we all know that if it’s that bad, blessed relief is just a mouse click away. Maybe.

While some have said “All we need to know we learned in Kindergarten”. I am of the opinion that all we need to know we can learn from Nature. While walking today I came upon a tree that looked totally destroyed. I can only assume that some gang of angry woodpeckers chose this one tree from all those around it and went to town.

What I wasn’t ready for. What I didn’t expect. What I had learned before, and yet was so surprised when I saw it. Was that this tree, so devastated by outside forces, managed to keep going. To keep growing, and be as beautiful and productive as those around it. Anyone looking at this picture would have assumed that life was over for this one.


But anyone looking at this picture,



Would never know how much of a miracle it was. Never know the trauma inflicted and suffering endured. We rarely have the whole story about anything and we really don’t know what we don’t know. So I for one am going to once again try not to assume, not to judge, not to count anyone out. Because I don’t know what I don’t know.
Besides, even if I did know, who am I?