Joseph Campbell studied the myths and religions of the world and did an amazing ob finding the same components that are threaded between them. One common thread is the worship of the animal or food crop that sustains life of the people of that culture. In India it si the cow, for the Native Americans of the plains it is the buffalo, the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, the salmon.
I am here to say that for the city of Beijing, it is the tree (they just don’t know it yet).
The trees here in Beijing get easily ten times the amount of karma credit then the trees I know back home in Colorado. The amount of work they do in a day, flitering China’s air is more then any tree I have ever seen! (So if you want to become a tree that gets good karma credits faster—go to China!)
Okay, so the air in Beijing is bad, windy days and days following windy days the air is actually nice.
But China keeps on driving, and operating their facgtories and burning their vast supply of coal that is the diertiest type of coal around… So it is up to the trees to get the cleaning job done.
And to this, I thank you, I worship you, you you tired, poor, overworked, underpaid, overstressed beautiful, strong, caring always giving, unselfish trees.
I notice all that you do.
I notice that you look tired and sometimes lonely when you are a street corner, all alone without another tree in sight.
I notice the amazing difference in the air quality when I stand next to you.
I do not take for granted the parks where you gather and create pockets of utopia for my lungs to drink among a city of polluted haze.
I notice you
I applaud you
And I LOVE YOU
I will walk on your side of the street any day.
With love and the Deepest of Gratitude,
Carrie
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