Tricycle | Awake in the World

The winter solstice draws near. Now is the “stand still of the sun.” Germinid meteor showers of early December claim the night sky, obscured only by the huge disc of the Wolf Moon. This is the best season to see the bones of garden plants. Wrap up in a blanket and sit still under a tree you love.

More than twenty years ago, at Green Gulch Farm, we celebrated our first annual tree planting with Dr. E. F. Schumacher, author of“Small Is Beautiful.”Dr. Schumacher encouraged us to plant trees and to get to know trees in every way. He reminded us that the Buddha exhorted his disciples to plant, and see to the maintenance of, at least five trees in their lifetime. In this way stable forests were planted throughout north-eastern India, all along the pilgrimage routes of the Buddha.