Why Write a Story About a Birch Tree with Feelings about Family, Community and Environment

Why Write a Story about a Birch Tree with Feelings about Family, Community and Environment

Our mother earth is teaching us a lesson in universal responsibility. This blue planet is a delightful habitat. Its life is our life; its future, our future. Indeed, the earth acts like a mother to us all; as her children, we are dependent on her. In the face of the global problems we are going through it is important that we must all work together...Dalai Lama  April 2020

Animals don’t talk but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have voices or feelings. Trees don’t communicate but it doesn’t mean they don’t belong to their community and environment.  

In fact, a tree is a perfect member of a community that shows that  a body is an assembly of species and relationships, never self-contained. A tree can teach that we are an ecosystem in our own rights. Nature starts with a single cell growing to more complexity where each part has a purpose. We can best survive as a whole society if we believe in diversity and cooperation.

This birch tree is called Birchum who interacts with the weather, his humus, his seeds and leaves and helps his community in good times and bad with both shelter and food. He overcomes his insecurities with the help of a tree Dryad who as the essence of knowledge explains how his personal organization helps to contribute to his environment.  

Through many experiences he learns about the value of home, cooperation, and Nature’s most important Law that everything is connected. He takes pride in his unique Self in his special space as well as belonging to a forest legacy. He understands love as “moving together to help each other be better.” 

Within Nature’s cycles and plant succession, his time also reflects new beginnings followed by endings which become new beginnings.

However, with his People encounter, he realizes how big Ego and short-term thinking can impact a community’s lifetime, but that Nature can recover given a chance. With his Dryad they discuss giant food webs from primary nature’s perspective to people’s secondary processes in Mega Plants and Mega Malls, along with manufactured seeds, that try to alter the essence of life on Earth. 

A loud clarion call is heard throughout the story that the Universe is not outside you … 

“what’s good for each of us is good for all of us; 

what hurts one of us, hurts all of us.”

Like a web, the moral spins out that a solitary birch tree can represent the essential connections between our healthy Planet and balancing Self through cycles, cooperation, unity and appreciation of the wonder of Nature because once gone it can’t be replaced.

This e-book is available next week for download plus Kindle.

This week you can ask questions or share some thoughts about what you would say if you were a tree.  

Sincerely,

Annemarie Berukoff

Helpfulmindstreamforchanges.com

PS: "It's unbelievable that sometimes it takes great imagination to see how we are all connected..."  excerpt: The Ecological Succession of Birchum Birch

...a love story for all ages who care about family, community, environment and Nature