tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832717081567860679.post6459602532102554242..comments2013-07-06T12:29:27.382-07:00Comments on David W. Sanders: Not goin' home anymore: What Becomes of the Heart of a Hollow Tree?David W. Sandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15986008048420533836noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832717081567860679.post-67136210203448979302012-11-16T06:10:51.453-08:002012-11-16T06:10:51.453-08:00Lovely poem. Out of chaos comes beauty.
What bec...Lovely poem. Out of chaos comes beauty. <br /><br />What becomes of the heart of a hollow tree is a wonderful question and has lots of wonderful answers. It makes room for bees, woodpeckers, wood ducks, bears, racoons, chickadees, and a myriad of other animals. In Texas, several times I've seen cactus growing from a tree with a rotten heart. <br /><br />So a tree with a broken heart becomes even more of a giving tree producing honey, and babies. <br /><br />Watching pileated woodpecker babies with their really bad haircuts sit in the nest hole and watch for food, or getting to be at the nest site when day-old baby ducklings appear in ones and twos and the jump usually 50 or more feet to the ground, getting to listen to a hibernating bear snore, while her babies talk to each other, these are few of my favorite things from trees with broken hearts. Marilyn Kircushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15014565704792020948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832717081567860679.post-84683795560068296502010-07-13T12:57:58.313-07:002010-07-13T12:57:58.313-07:00Nice poem, David! And I can relate to your revisit...Nice poem, David! And I can relate to your revisiting an old book. It hadn't changed, but you weren't the same boy and you brought something less, or at least different, to it than he did. I'm afraid to revisit my old childhood "Freddy" books about a pig, though I did just read a book I inhaled 35 years ago and it was good. I'd only remembered really one thing from it, though, and it turns out it was a fairly minor scene in the scheme of the book . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com