Gaia's Trees

This is me communing with a tree. Plants have personality and energy just like we do. Trees and plants should be in our grateful thoughts every day. They give us life. They give us oxygen and food. Protecting their health is protecting our own. It is easy to see that the bark of a great many of our local trees is peeling. I also saw this happening in the Santa Monica Mountains. Young trees are uprooting quickly in storms. Broken branches cause power outages. So many trees look like spindly step ladders, because all of the branches have broken off. Bugs erode these dying trees, aerating the bark, allowing moisture to saturate it thoroughly. Perhaps the cause of the peeling. Many of the pesticides have been used in huge quantities here to keep areas around power lines in effect defoliated and to keep lawns green. We have a close to the surface water table, a very special environment with lots of sand, ponds and vernal pools, which keep everything t the surface. I wonder at the quantity of aluminum being put in the atmosphere from cloud seeding, and what the effects are. Trees are not naturally aluminum-resistant, but one company has put themselves in the position to have a monopoly on aluminum-resistant trees. Greed is a very toxic place to be. My Cahuilla Indian teacher said that time is speeding up, like a child moving to the outside of a merry-go-round. These days, bad dharma bites people pretty hard, pretty quick. Hurting the earth is hurting ourselves. Gaia may feel a bit put upon, but she's been around for billions of years...