Got Your Back

I’ve got your back, you’ve got mine. Lean on me, I’ll lean on you. I keep thinking: it’s as simple as this. (Of course not physically, don’t worry these are pre-covid photos!!) But we really are leaning on each other more than ever, in these strange times.

I’ve been spending my time split between nature and the screen, and I’m so grateful for the faces and voices that surround me, as well as the trees that support our collective lungs.

Who’s someone you’re leaning, today? If you’re feeling lonely, you can lean on me.

Personally, I’ve also been leaning on this poem by Martin Buber. It’s all about the sacredness of the trees:

I contemplate a tree.

I can accept it as a picture: a rigid pillar in a flood of light, or splashes of green traversed by the gentleness of the blue silver ground.

I can feel it as movement: the flowing veins around the sturdy, striving core, the sucking of the roots, the breathing of the leaves, the infinite commerce with earth and air–and the growing itself in its darkness

Photo captured with @octoberjen31 by @jo_anne_r_ at #landofthemedicinebuddha.