Tree huggers always get bad reps. Tree hugger is (usually derogatory) slang for an environmentalist that is a little too intense for society's taste. But hugging trees is about more than being in love with the environment. Hugging trees is about connecting. Connecting yourself to every tree that has been or ever will be. Connecting yourself to the axis mundi, the navel of the world. Connecting yourself to both the upper and the lower levels of the world. Being in both heaven and earth at the same time.
If you look at the picture of me hugging the tree, you can see tiny snippets of my connecting to the upper level (heaven) and the lower level (earth). You can't see the top of the tree, probably because it's in union with the heavenly universe, and you cannot see the bottom of the tree, probably because it's roots are slowly finding things to wrap themselves around in the earth. In that moment, and in a lot of moments so I'm learning, I was connected to existence in a totally new way.
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