When I die, she said, I'm coming back as a tree with deep roots & I'll wave my leaves at the children every morning on their way to school & whisper tree songs at night in their dreams. Trees with deep roots know about the things children need.
A tree is like a child's bike...it can pretty much be anything, anywhere, anywhen... Full of myth and mystery.
It reminded me of Charles de Lint's novel "The Onion Girl".
24 August 2008
Amysout:
This is great. Reminds me of my dad - he loved nature & was always very forward-thinking. He read us The Little Prince & The Giving Tree when we were very young. Dad took the time to explain to us the background message of those books & he would have loved this.
12 July 2008
P.K.:
I recently bought the print "Deep Roots" because I felt it was written for me. I come from a family where the parents were alcoholics and I the child was the grown-up in the family. When I was young and walked to school the trees waved to me as I passed and I always waved back. I grew up to write children's stories (as yet unpublished), one about a tree that my great-grandparents used to park
