~ The Tree Had Branch and It Reached Out ~

This week was has been one that has truly been a busy one. Wednesday seemed like a Saturday and then here we are at another weekend. I guess that is a good thing. Each day how we have so much to do and aside of it all we have that self time. This was a productive week to say the least. From getting things done with family, to tending to things with my own health, and then finding that my insurance covers everything. I can't tell you how much has been taken place. Each one of us has our own agenda's and then we have that time to literally engage within the exchanges.

The story about this tree is one that is precious to me. I came back from NYC. And my best friend Jim took me to this place as he had came to visit me within NYC. He always says to me that he knows the entire story. It's actually a good story as I had left with the intentions of returning to NYC, and then things came up with my wife at the time and he was trying to get a drift of what was going on in both places. My wife's name was Eliana, and he was having troubles with his own marriage at that time but we sat and talked. He asked me how I felt as he knew I was merged right into the spanish/Colombian society and the entire NYC scene.  From that day on after my divorce and my father's first hit of Cancer (which he was only given two weeks to live) I truly at that time felt like I had gone back home and returned back to a place that I didn't know anymore.

Everyone can give you advice but at the same time only those that have seen both sides of the coin would have the ability to understand. So the merit of the tree is that I have always went to it over the years since I have been gone from NYC and I when ever there was or is a time that I have something that comes up. In the summertime especially I will just go and hang out at under this tree. There have been people that I have met there as it seems to be a place that everyone goes to for jogging, walking all times of the year. Now as time has passed - and I came back from a place called Edmonton. I literally enjoy it here. There was this topic of love. And I will always remember, "Jack if the next women that enters your life should be within your own world." It made sense to me as time went on. Certainly when I before I returned here I took a few things into consideration. I had met some women within my offline life and right before the economy went down - this was the place to be in Canada as well my roots started here from my teenage years and some of my adult years.

Today while I finished off with this situation with my insurance I thought that I would return to this very tree. I think often we have certain benchmarks that we look upon as having some meaning within our lives. For me - it's that tree as every time I do see it - it seems to tell me what I already know if that makes any sense.

Within bing UP as I wrote within my last post. There are those good times and the ones that one does ponder on somethings and why they happen. I don't believe there is a reason for everything but for myself what I do believe in is that so often we get past things and then we reason them out.

In all times over the last 9 years now - whenever I look for answers I find that most often the answers come by way of going to this very tree. I have never wrote about this tree within all my writing experience as it's something that I hold close.

Fortunately, I think that everyone has some benchmark of sorts as the world turns we get up every day and we do all the things we have to do, but at the same time there are those friends, those very precious personal things that one does render as it makes our own life of a personal pleasure.

So this tree must be some twenty years old. Now and then it is the place that I find to be symbolic. It's something good, ironically I never thought from sky scrapes I would be lead to leaning on a tree now and then but it's a soothing thing. I am far past the times of my former wife, my father's cancer - but I am not an isolationist, I truly enjoy people and after this week today after I had accomplished what I had planned out but didn't know where all was headed - the outcome was terrific and I went out to this tree. It sound rather different but I knew, I just knew I had to go to this tree. One gets to a certain age and they know more of what is rather than what is not. But yet we I don't subscribe in getting old, as it's just a number. Hence, "we don't grow older we grow ahead".  Where did that quote come from...It came from this very tree.

That all said I bid you a great Saturday,

Jack