Why BaumBleibe?
Baum is tree in German.
The word is familiar.
Baum Bleibe means tree dwelling. It also means, “Tree, Stay!”
i’m basically asking the Tree of Life to be a longterm dwelling place for us and our world.
When i think of BaumBleibe, i think of poems and art like Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Rise Up Rooted Like Trees”,
and Marcus Maria Jung ‘s tree photo below, i see a tree portal and feel drawn to enter and let myself fall?
Faaaaaalllllllllllllll until i can feel that it’s actually true:hands are holding me
and the world i live in, the relationships i have.
You are invited to enter the tree portal and let yourself fall with me.
Faaaaaallllllll until you can feel that it’s actually true, hands are holding you
and the world you live in, the relationships you have.
Imagining you “let yourself fall with me.”
It inspires me to chant the TreeBleibe song for us and the world we live in, the relationships we have.
Something just spooked the cat.
“Each thing—
each stone, blossom, child—
is held in place…
If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.
So, like children, we begin again…
to fall… “
Rilke’s Bood of Hours: Love Poems to God
[Allow me to pause here and share that it was Rilke’s poem Herbst—Autumn—that helped me understand why practicing “falling” is how i will arrive].
