The Proverbial Tree In Forest Stuff: PART 1

"A Tree, somewhere"
PHOTO BY: Tamara Thompson 

The long admired paradigm about the proverbial "Tree In The Forrest" has many answers; yes, no, maybe, or even; "Who knows, who cares, or I don't even care". The answer being intrigued by our many cultures and life spans, it had always provoked a way of thinking; through theory. Had this, theory been so unimportant through time, it may have been tossed and dismissed as something silly, much unlike a tree, though it survived.  Though that is also a paradigm in itself, is it just silly nonsense to provoke a thought?

A thought pattern or process, to wonder, maybe start to even dream, to ask questions? Perhaps to begin to start to think and use our own minds?  This one tree In the forest that fell though we may not

The Green Earth
Photo By: Tamara Thompson

have known. Though that tree theory sure did make a lot of noise, at least it opens up a dialogue of communication, which I've heard somewhere maybe key.

This whole tree thing, does have many elements and a bit of surprise to many who on the onset, first maybe as young, learning of this said tree that fell that day in the Forest, and then to ask, does anybody hear it? Travelling for two hours, off to Brock University years back, I stumbled upon the correct answer at my first hack at my first lecture.  Years of theorizing, the nature of the metaphor, came to a wondering hault.

The question was asked then again, by a professor, me as a dumbfounded University scardy cat, sitting in the row and isles listening to our professor, which we did hear him loud and clear as we sat in our acoustic,  rising auditorium, that was a definite.  As I really didn't know, the answer to this kinda-caramilk and a chocolate binding question was then unfolded, as "I Don't Know" ....

A Wondering Life
Photo By Tamara Thompson

The Proverbial Tree In Forest stuff: Part 2, To Be Continued....