Apr

8

When roots of a tree hit an obstacle eg a rock, they embrace it and grow around it. That is how living organism work isn't it - they somehow adapt.

Speaking to younger ppl (below 30) there is a bit of despair I can pick up which wasn't there say 20yrs ago. And plenty of good reasons for it perhaps and I agree with them so often. It is amplified by media, professors, parents, celebrities , and then group think etc etc…they all set this emotional temperature of negativity and cult of fear. applications are everywhere - nominal rates can not rise in the US coz the econ would collapse etc etc etc…completely un-nuanced…whatever the topic…almost irrelevant.

maybe individually or collectively there is a lesson to be learnt from trees.

Henry Gifford writes:

Most everyone has seen sidewalks pushed up by tree roots, but the way the roots do it isn’t exactly what it looks like. The roots don’t actually push the sidewalk up.

What happens is that as the sidewalk expands and contracts with alternating sunlight and darkness, and maybe moves for other reasons, small spaces become available which the roots grow into. Then, each time the space opens up a little, the roots expand a little more, thus the sidewalk can’t move back to its original position, and gradually ends up far from its original position. The mechanism is called "ratcheting." Reminds me of overnight price movement.


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