On the Sunday before the 2008 elections I cut down a mighty tree. It was once a vital tree growing in tandem right next to a tree of a different variety. As a result of the development that was put in next to me, one of the two trees died. That was in late 2007. The summer of 2008 was the summer of its full demise. That fall, with a sense of foreboding overtaking me, I decided to cut it down. It was sort of a guttural rejection to the mood ... it was a protest. I had just written "My Final Plea" to a very good friend of mine (see right hand column).I needed an outlet for the rage that I was feeling ... rage about the mistake that I suspected America was about to be make. So I cut it down chopped it up and burned it up ... incense to the world. It took a long time to finish off this tree. The wood was hard and it was a tall substantial tree. To me it represented the mighty and strong founding ideals that the forefathers put forward. I cut it down because I felt that these ideals were under assault. The intervening years have proved it to me.
Two years later this once mighty tree has been transformed into a wisdom chair.
Last week we had a good wind storm. The storm snapped a large branch of the willow tree out by the pond. Today I pulled out the chain saw and gladly began working on that thing. A day after the election and the resurgence of an awakened America., I savored the thought that this willow tree represents the weakness and rot of socialism.. The branches are very bendable but the core of the tree is susceptible to infestation and decay. WOW! That kind of reminds me of a leftist and/or progressive ... the rot and decay of collectivism, corporatism, statism, Stalinism, Marxism, Maoism, Fabianism, or whatever name you want to call it. Let's just call it anti-constitutionalism. I'm happy to cut this down and burn this branch.
Notice in the photo below ... how the core is rotted by infestation of wealth destroying insects. This is the Obama tree. Look to the right, this is what remains of Obamas tree house.
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