Branch Management

Be like the branch - "Grasshopper..."

Like the what?.....

If you will offer me your listening ..... I will elaborate...

Do you mean.... to say... no two branches are alike?
Growing uniquely, in the direction of their choosing.
Some reaching skyward,
Others bending until they nearly touch the ground.

Well that was both a marvellous demonstration of speaking
And a telling commentary, albeit limiting
Now, I will remind you once again,
Of the invitation to listen.

A branch which has assumed the solitary condition you describe
Might be better described as a "stick" or "switch."
It has by no means lost its functionality
Woven together with others
A fence or thatched roof
Stacked and aged
It will release stored energy
To warm hearth and home
Left on the ground
It's decaying form
Will be digested

However, in order to perform any of these functions
The branch will have relinquished it's life
The outcomes are rather predetermined and predictable

The distinction is the presence or absence of Source
Or better said, the "connection" to source
It's an active participation in life rather than "passive"
Source then - still providing, "fuel"
Rather than the severed branch - becoming fuel
It can then be, the conduit through which life source flows and expresses
Or, an inanimate object consumed by life.

Which would you rather be - Grasshopper?

Why do you keep calling me "Grasshopper?"

Because you are, a grasshopper!!

Know thyself Grasshopper!! Know thyself!!