I just came home from son, Chuck’s, house. I had to do a little work there. I was stunned at this large tree stump that had been sawed down, and drilled full of holes to pour stump killer in. Four roots from the stump were outside the ground pointing in different directions, making it look like a large animal lying there. I had to snap a picture cause it looked so real. There are so many different kinds of natural growth from trees, that gives off excitement, sometimes in places where one would least expect it. This tree stump is rooted within two feet of the wall of the house. Another large evergreen hides the view from the front of the house. A solid stone fence hides it from the side of the house. Just a narrow pathway separates the fence from Chuck’s house. It had been let grow till the top hung over Chuck’s roof top, and the next-door neighbors too. It finally got cut down never to grow again. All the little would-be trees growing from the roots, got killed with the same stump killer. All that’s left now is a show piece, and it is neat to look at. A piece of art that I would like to have in my yard. It’s not possible to move, because the roots go too deep, and reach too far out to ever get the whole thing all together. As many times as I have been to Chuck’s house, and worked around that stump, I had never noticed the image it showed off today. Funny things do happen. If it were in my yard, I would build a little fence around it, and add a monument with inscription that read, Mummified Headless Bear. Age unknown. I would plant a few flowers around the fence as in remembrance of something that once lived.
How many times do we miss seeing something of significance in persons, places, or things, that we have been familiar with for years? Oh! Just to have eyes like Jesus, but that would be the part of creation, that would make us immortal. We must use what the creator gave us at birth. Brains that seek beauty in the most outrageous places. No way, we say, but why did God create outrageousness? Does it have a place in our world of dignity? We’re reaching way farther out than any human being could ever discern. We must see what we see, whenever, or wherever, we see it. Be it beautiful, ugly, artistic, unusual, hurting, disturbing, or of any other characteristic, we must take it to heart, and in some cases, frame, and hang. Display or portray. We are we, and we are one of a kind. Accept it, and move on with it. If we don’t fit in the picture, look for one that does. No one wants to be an odd-ball. We must never, never force ourselves in a group that is not part of our make-up. So as I saw the animal likeness in the tree stump today, let us always be looking for more freaking, instead of only perfection. I like my world of simplicity, and would not trade it for a million dollars.
God Bless
Myrtle Jean Sharp
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