Review: What you can learn from listening to the trees
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2013
I love a good story with a message that makes you think and that you can apply in your daily life. I live in a forest, my daily life is surrounded by trees. I have literally thousands of trees on my property, but I do not have personal relationships with all of them.Driftwood is about on one level the feelings that trees have. On another level is about the story of a tree that felt that things kept happening to him that were not his fault, and he perceived these things to be bad and unfair. I have learned a lot from the trees, and one of them is truly about community and caring. I see where the trees do fall down and sometimes have to fall on each other. Some then actually do take the other trees down with them. Other times they stay leaning into another tree for support. I have often wondered about the tree that is the "supporter." What do they feel? Are they feeling burdened or do they just accept their fate as part of being a community of trees?This book tackles a lot of these issues through the eyes of one tree Seymour and a bird named Renee. It is inspirational and as the author states, helps us realize that we must not shut others out of our lives... and God is forever present in our lives.