Is a tree not free because it has a root growing into the earth?
From Freedom and Other Responsibilities, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The wind came hard off the field all afternoon and the big maple on the corner did nothing but lean and come back. I spent most of my younger years sure that anything fixed in place was a thing to pity, and I said so often, usually from a branch of something fixed in place. Switch asked me this morning why I always come back to the same three trees when I can go anywhere, and I had no answer for him until the wind started. Is a tree not free because it has a root growing into the earth? The maple went further sideways today than I have ever flown in a straight line, and it was still there at dusk. I do not know yet whether that is freedom or only the appearance of it from where I sit.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- If you’re tired of the same old story, you’re not as tired as you think.
- If it wasn’t your first time, it won’t be your last.
- We hold ourselves less accountable for the things we meant to do otherwise.
- Is there a star the heavens can do without?
- We may not be the master of our own fate, but we are its chief architect.
- Christmas is for the birds.