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Water from a mulberry tree: Not how but why?

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Here is a short video I found on BBC World this morning. Water pouring from a mulberry tree.

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From internet: Mulberries do not bud until all danger of frost is past, and so they symbolize calculated patience. When they do produce buds, it happens so quickly that it seems to occur overnight, displaying and thus symbolizing expediency and wisdom. For all these attributes, the ancient Greeks dedicated the plant to the goddess of wisdom, Athena.

Me: The explanation of how this tree pours out water in the Spring after the thaw is very sweet because, of course, it doesn't explain a thing. The head is very good at explaining "how", but I am much more interested in why? The lesson, or one of them, that I get from this tree is, "don't wait". Pour forth. The time is now.

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Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and (more...)
 

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