Someone To Watch Over Me

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Reflections on a ginkgo...

I have always loved these trees... even when I was a little girl, I understood they were special. My mom, who always fussed in the garden, planted a ginkgo in the front yard of our otherwise rather ordinary midwest home. It was always striking to me just how slowly it grew.

It is an ancient tree... which has survived from prehistoric times... some have called it "a living fossil"

It has no living relatives and has endured for millions of years with little evolutionary change. It has a botanical history which spans over 200 million years. As such... it is a reminder to me of the vast continuum of time... and a memento of how time reaches forwards and backwards sometimes in unexpected ways. Connecting us to a time before prehistory. And connecting us to the generations which will follow us.

The Ginkgo... is therefore also a living memorial to resilience. To an ability to survive through cataclysmic changes. That the planet and the species upon it have an imperative to exist and survive beyond any one species - our human time scale is puny compared to the ginkgo.

In some Eastern traditions, the Ginkgo tree is sacred. a symbol of changelessness... a bearer of hope and the immeasurable past... a symbol of love.

The shape of the leaf: The leaf edge splits into two parts and leafstalk combine into one part. It forms the fan-symmetrical shape which in some traditions is a symbol of “harmony”. The two lobes meating together as one... is a perfect representation of a symbol of love. Both one and two at once. “Yin and Yang”, “spring and autumn”... a unity of opposites... even two sides of the same coin... ;)

Because of its peculiar shape, the ginkgo biloba leaf can be seen as a modified heart shape - and in my opinion... the nature of trees... sturdy and long lasting, shelter from the storm, a perfect metaphor for love, and for

...Someone to Watch Over Me...
 
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Yes, I knew some of the above. Great information!
It's one of my favorites, too,
Great pic. Thay color!
 
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