Sugar Maple Tree

Sugar maple tree: 

the term is hydraulic lift, how certain trees draws deep ground water up through their root system during the day and then by night, in place of storing this water to be passed along their branches the next day, will instead share this bounty to surrounding plant life. One tree nourishing an entire ecosystem through the soil and roots of its connection. It's an amazing act of care. I came across this while reading a book on wish making, the author, who studied with Hawaiian shamans, used the example of the sugar maple tree, which seems particularly adept at sharing its stored water. 

what does that have to do with wish making?

everything really.

that are wisest wishes are made for the sake of an ecosystem over a singular and immediate need, and through that wish we gain the entire support of the universe itself. Wishing as if we're a sugar maple tree, root deep in our connection, having a shared intent of thriving in an often troubled world. Science now sees trees as belonging to an intricate underground universe, trading information and nutrients through root systems, fungi, and soil. It's survival of the most sharing, seen less as competition and more of connection and mutual concern. Darwin's famous quote on the fittest being more apt to survive was actually implying that it's the life forms that are able to adapt the easiest and quickest that are the ones that gain an advantage. 

survival of the friendliest it just as often seems. 

and the sugar maple is our example, a spirit guide to lead the way through our own survival. It's time we learn of our root system through earth, of connection by air and water, that we belong as an ecosystem and not in isolation. We need to make wiser wishes, not just for our immediate benefit, and not always for more and more...

but maybe wishing for just enough,

and learning again

our connection to the world. 

~

Peace, Eric