Friday, June 3, 2011

Old tree

Today we ventured outdoors on the Bundanon farm for the whole day accessing the nature to inspire movement for In-habit (working title). One of the activities was to write about our experience of slow walking underneath an old tree.

Below are just some of the responses.

Andrew Pandos:
I reckon the tree could be there a really long time. Too many years before I was born, but exactly the same as my dad.
Our body is the tree - we grow from little seeds, growing slowing to the sky. This tree could be our soul and there could be something living in the tree like an owl. It sleeps all day and makes a hoo hoo at night. Its part of the story.

It could be a spirit tree that talks to you with a face.
Most people can climb a tree.

Twilight - he couldn't sleep. Its a story about animals, plants and trees. Make sense?

This tree could be like a journal and poetry because this tree could make paper. Most people cut trees and make a book just like that.

This tree could be dying when all the leaves fall off. Then it grows again.

It's not the family tree at all, its a big something else. Its the big mystery tree. This morning this tree grows and grows in the evening and it grows at night. There could be another story of this tree. It could be a prickly tree like a hedgehog - it gets stuck in your skin. There could be ants crawling on the tree. Its a really big story.

Its a stump - hard an solid stump. The tree grew out of the stump or it could be a bridge falling down.

Scarey tree - tapping on your window - possums in the trees. There's a short branch and underneath it, there's a wombat tunnel like a cave. It could be bat or bear cave. It could be lots of houses for wombats or cave men. I love caves, its dark in there, no lights at all.

Its really long - it could be alive for a really long time. The roots are really strong - there's really tiny seeds in there.

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