This is another post for my personal aesthetic practice in my aesthetic education class.
I remember when I was very young and watched the Bugs Life for the first time and believed trees grew from rocks. I can specifically remember when I was very young living at my first home. I lived on an acreage just outside of Athebasca Alberta, and when I was just a little boy, I tried to plant rocks and grow trees. To my disappointment, I found out that rocks did not grow threes. However, I was still fascinated with the fact that all trees started out from just a tiny little seed.
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For this week of my personal aesthetic practice I went out to Wascana Park with my friend and took some pictures of pine trees. It’s a wonder how they can grow so high and great with such ease from a small little seed.
Living day to day, I often forget, and take for granted, all the little things that I used to find absolutely amazing. The fact that one little seed somehow grows into these great big tress, with no help at all is really a wonderful thing. Sometimes I find myself worrying about how I am going to get by and how I will support myself. Then I think about the trees. They have no one to help them and no one to support their growth, but somehow they manage to grow high into the sky. I find reassurance in that thought. If a tree can grow as great and as big as it can with such ease, then surely I, a human, with much more support and value than a tree can live with the assurance that I will be ok.
Here is a cool time lapse video of a Oak tree that I found. It’s a really amazing thing.
Benjamin Ironstand 