Daily Haiku

Dull air, dull grey, dull

Low grey skies hang mournfully

Distant plane flies past

I’ve been thinking about frugality a lot in the past few days. How we justify being miserable through our limitations, such as buying a house full of crap and then wondering why we are exhausted, working all the hours to justify these things. It’s really pointless. I have plans, things I’m working towards, but I don’t disclose them and people often like to tear down dreams. But in order to make those plans happen, habits and behaviours have to change.

I had a lot of feelings about the energy around the oak tree today. I felt compelled to sketch it while meditating. So here are the resulting drawings below. I’m a big fan of Merlin Sheldrake’s book ‘Entagled Life’ about the mycelium networks of funghi. I like the idea that trees are sentient enough to communicate through their roots and support one another. In ‘a secret life of trees’ I learned that lone trees don’t benefit from the tree community. I feel sad thinking about my oak tree being lonely and cut off.