by Mersau Khentimah

If lucky, even a seed carried in the belly of an animal…

Once released, finds fertile soil in which to grow…

Some seeds fall from a branch and return to the soil near the tree from which they came. Others are carried by birds, squirrels, or other animals and settle elsewhere.

The seed has no other job than to grow strong and make more seeds.

We may look at a tree growing far from its parent and ask how it got there. But that journey is not the concern of the seed or the tree. Wherever its roots grow, the tree remains connected to the same foundation as the tree from which it came from. This is what stability looks like. The tree receives air and light just as its parent does and continues the same cycle of receiving and giving. It only continues to do what it has to do. 

It bears fruit that carries seeds.

And when those seeds are carried away, in whichever direction they go, the tree knows that each seed is coded with the instructions to do what it must.

It must take root, grow, and survive.