By Michael Avery
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
John Lennon, from “Beautiful Boy”
The Tree Left Standing
In a wooded area not far from Colliding Rivers in Glide, Oregon, a small fir tree was growing from the surface of an old stump. Intuitively, I knew that life was communicating with me through this uncommon event in its symbolic language, the language of waking dreams. As stated before, Carl Jung, the psychologist, called these events “meaningful coincidences.” I also knew that important details about my upcoming move to Hawaii could be known by deciphering this symbolic message.