in which we discuss - love n trees

Us cats love trees (yeah, I know that should be "we" cats love trees, but it's my blog, so live with it ok?). We hunt from them, rest in them, observe from them and leave messages on them. You see us scratching our scratchy posts, and you think we are "sharpening our claws". A human told you that crap, not a cat. You blunt things by hacking trees with them, you don't sharpen them. When birds wipe their beaks on branches, they aren't sharpening them either. They do it because they have to wipe worm skank off of them, and they don't have sleeves. We leave messages on trees with a kind of feline braille, and by leaving pheromones behind. Dogs pee up them. That's because dogs are a bit neanderthal, and plain gross. You people think it's cute how we do the natural stuff because you think you're a bit above all that. Shyeah, right. There's more to trees than meets the eye, and you lot are more like us than you realise. Like Daisies are a metaphor for life (see Cat Chat), trees are a metaphor for love, but you lot already knew that didn't you......?

You may have loved and lost, or not loved at all, but love like trees is all around, you just have to go find it. Don't despair if you feel you're in a desert or on the plains, keep moving forwards because whether it's a small spinney or a forest, there's new growth somewhere ahead. Sitting down and moping won't get you any closer. Go into any woods, copse or forest and the evidence is there. You mark trees to show your presence and your feelings just as we do. You probably do it in the hope that your love will grow with the tree and last as long, and why not? You used to mark cave walls, but painting stories and hacking out heiroglyphics in the modern front room will just make people think you're weird, and make the house harder to flog.

It's not just the kittens amongst you that carve your hearts on to trees either, Softboy has sat in the woods and watched older couples do it (not because he's a perve, but sometimes you feel a picture is about to pass your way, so you have to sit and wait for it to arrive). Wooded areas are magical places, the stuff of legend, so it's no wonder people want to create their own legends in the bark.

As the tree grows, and your lives move on, it can be  wonderful experience to revisit and maybe tell your grandchildren about the love you had when you carved the names that are now so high and out of reach and created your own legend, and wish for them the memories you took with you, because as we age like the forests, memories are really all we can take with us. An oak can last 400 years, but the bark doesn't make a good background for carving. Other trees have a better surface, but are more transient. Bit like love sometimes. Perhaps there's a lesson there about letting go from one love to the next, or one lifetime to the next - wherever that may be?

You can experience the physical pleasure of the love you carve when the tree and the love is young by putting your arms around the trunk, but as it grows there has to be more. It's more about where you stand, and the part you play in the cycle of growth, and re-birth. Trees don't just take from the land, they spread their fruits and pay the earth back each Autumn to nourish the land. You people need to learn to spread the love a bit more.

Trees, like love, show their strength by being umoveable in their moral outlook, but flexible in their experiences of the storms of life. Sometimes they find their position is untenable, and they fail in the storm. Sometimes they have to be cut back to save them, but there is always the hope within - and the potential - for re-growth and a new lease of life and love. If trees bring you nothing else, they should bring you hope. The World was first explored and discovered by people sailing in timber ships with a hope of finding new life and wealth. They first travelled across the land with wooden carts that had wooden wheels. New life, new wealth and new love were all found using the timber from trees, because even when the trees were no longer living, their legacy was to provide for the ones left behind to utilise what they had put in place. Their sacrifice was not in vain, but they didn't do it all for those following. The timber still had to be hewn and worked for it to be any use, and those who left it to rot went nowhere. A bit like the legacy you'll leave your kittens. Don't do it all for them, they won't grow, make them work it so they can travel far.

If you leave the right legacy, the message will travel down the generations. When your kids follow in your footsteps, they'll end up where you did. You need to make sure that's a good place.

Your legacy, like the giant log here, will be a testament to where you stood in life. Did you chosse a good position or just end up where the wind blew your seed? Did you leave room for your saplings to grow and progress, because if you were too large in their lives and overshadowed them, or enveloped them in your canopy of leaves then they wouldn't have had enough light to flourish. It's good to protect the young that follow, but they have to form their own growth, and suffer their own storms. Tree trunks thicken with the battering they receive. If they don't suffer the storms, they grow thin and weak. Same with new romantic love. It's not about avoiding storms, it's about building the resilience to deal with the next ones that come. No storms during the growing phase, no resilience.

The growth of both love and timber should always be gradual too, after the first shoots have quickly established themselves of course. The faster the growth, the weaker the timber. The strongest timber that endures whatever the elements can throw at it, and which resists rot and fungus grows slower. The roots drive deeper and the fibres knit tighter forming strength, whilst retaining flexibility. Show your young by the way you grow. 

However your love grows, wherever your love grows, let it blossom and bring joy and hope. Even in the depths of the coldest and most barren Winter, there is always another Spring just around the corner. Re-growth, new growth or the potential of a seed released should always bring hope that one day you will feel the romance to want to carve your names with pride, and create a legacy. Sometimes some stupid dog will come along and pee on your tree. Don't let it bother you, it won't last for long before it's washed off, and it can never take away the fragrance of the blossom anyway. 

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