On the Spiritual Needs of Trees

“Why are we so unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you do is for yourself. And there isn't one.” – attributed to Wei Wu Wei (Terence James Stannus Gray, 1895-1986).

We can no longer speak of sustainable development apart from intergenerational solidarity. … (This) is not optional, but rather a basic question of justice, since the world we have received also belongs to those who will follow us. – Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, encyclical, May 24, 2015, paragraph 159. Posted as part of Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation for 11.5.21 by > cac.org <

Maybe we ask to much of trees. We task them with our spiritual needs, when they, in earnest, might have their own. …. We never seem to learn that all of our disasters are made of our successes. – Nathaniel Perry, February, New Letters (Volume 87, Nos. 3&4,Summer/Fall 2021). University of Missouri-Kansas City.

And on another note, historically (if not hysterically) related to a lack of solidarity, today is Guy Fawkes Day.