Are you ready to participate in an experiment?
I’m currently reading The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge By Manuel Lima
While reading it a phrase popped in my head, “from her heart grows a tree”
I did a search of the phrase and there were 0 search results. How often does that happen!?!?! With all the data we have put out here on the internet, the search engine couldn’t even offer a guess!
So let’s play.
With this blog post I have created the “trunk”
Now its your turn to add a branch. On your own blog use the phrase including the quotations:
“from her heart grows a tree”
Let’s see how many branches we can get by this time next week.
And so, from my heart grows a tree.
Melanie Reynolds
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Update: July 29, 2021 4:32pm (PST)
DEADLINE TO PARTICIPATE: AUGUST 2, 2021 Midnight (PST)
“Branches”: A post on your website/blog anything that includes “from her heart grows a tree” (A poem, a short story, a couple of sentences, a picture with the phrase as the title….)
“Roots”: Post your contribution in the comments below. For anyone who wants to participate that doesn’t have a blog or doesn’t feel like posting it on their blog.
Why is there a deadline?
So I can make a visual tree(s) of your contributions. Depending on how much input I have to work with I might make one fancy tree or a few experimental trees. I go with the flow with where ever the inspiration takes me!
I will *try* to have the project done the following week (Aug 9th-13th) for you all, see note below.
Note: I’ve been notified of potential Jury Duty. I should know if I’m selected as a potential Juror on Aug 2nd. If I’m selected I’ll have a civil and legal obligation to participate which could take up to two weeks or longer depending on the court case. If selected, I won’t be able to talk about it. I don’t yet know what the time commitment is like or how it will impact my schedule, but August was already stacking up to be a very busy month. We’ll see how it goes.
The Nature-led Life 
Very interesting. I’ll try to get in on this🙏🏾
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I know you could make a beautiful poem out of such a phrase!
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🥺🙏🏾
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I did add a branch to the tree Melanie
https://wordeologist.wordpress.com/2021/07/29/stay-poetry-mentalawareness/
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Hi Melanie, Very interesting. I feel like there is a haiku waiting to sprout from that line. I’m in!
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I’m looking forward to it! Haikus have been my favorite style of poetry since I played “Ghost of Tsushima”, where one element of the game was sitting in spots and building haiku from a few possible phrases. You also get to pet foxes. I love foxes!
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That game sounds pretty interesting. I don’t think I have ever heard of a game that asks you to sit quietly and write poetry.
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Yes and its a very beautiful game to sit in and wander about! 🙂
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Just a quick note: You’re “branch” (post) might not show up depending on your site settings. If you don’t allow “Search Engine Indexing” it likely won’t show up.
We’ll say it’s part of the experiment! I don’t expect anyone to change their site settings just for this. 🙂
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From her heart grows a tree, a family tree, with many branches called generations.
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I love it, Lisa! Since its here and not “branched out” on another blog, I’ll make you a “root” attached to the trunk. 🙂
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The quote is really beautiful and innovative
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Thank you, Prapti! Please let me know if you choose to participate! Add a “branch” by using the phrase on you blog, or add a “root” by adding something with the phrase here in the comment section.
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The Family Tree is among the most wonderful images of trees; how people are connected over generations. Certainly not the beginning of my family tree – yet, a long time ago, Barnebus Maney, Captain during the Revolution – father of 12 children was the beginning. I (and you and Joshua and Noah) are related to more people than you can imagine. Like a tree – we grow branches. Like a tree, we grow new branches – each one making us stronger. I love the connections.
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I love it, Mary! Thank you!
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Hi Melanie, Here is my submission and I noticed that I got the order of the words reversed after I wrote my haiku. I hope that it still works for you project.
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🙂 Tech challenged artist hoping my assignment meets the requirements! Thank you so much for this idea.
https://grounded-wisdom.com/2021/08/01/trunk/
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Thank you so much for your comment and for joining us! You DID do it right! Hooray!
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Hi Melanie, here’s my submission:
https://8-arrows.com/2021/08/01/from-her-heart-grows-a-tree/
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Thank you so much for participating, Ashley! I was worried I wouldn’t have many branches to work with, but several of you have stepped forward now and I’m not worried it anymore. 🙂
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Good luck! It will be good to see where this goes. I look forward then. Enjoy what’s left of the weekend 💐🙋♂️
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I love this experiment and am grateful I could participate. Thank you for this thought-provoking exercise.
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/780728/posts/3477506169
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Hi Tracy, Thank you so much for coming over and joining us here! I’ll be right over to visit your branch!
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Hi Melanie. Here’s my contribution. This is a lovely project – I hope you will propose more. 🙂
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Thank you so much, Lesley!
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Thank you to everyone that participated! I will get to work on the visualization tree asap! I was not selected to be a Juror so I hope to post the tree for you no later than this weekend. Thanks again!
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Hey, this title suddenly reminded me of the Corn Maiden: cornstalk grows into a woman, If I recall correctly?
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That sounds vaguely familiar, but I don’t remember which tribe or culture the story comes from. Maybe a North American Plains tribe. Here in the Pacific Northwest Salmon and Raven stories are common.
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It’s Tsalagi/Cherokee. Sorry, I’m from the southeast.
🙂
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