does anyone remember the picture above? It is a tree I see during my bike ride to the gym in Hollywood. It is a tree I used to see on my bike ride to Hollywood. Today I saw that the tree had been chopped down (see pictures 2 and 3). I blogged about said tree last year. It helped me make a point and for some reason I found that endearing. Though I wouldn't go as far as to call the tree an eye sore, I could see how the owner of the property on which the tree stood could see it as a de-valuating factor to his real estate investment. And maybe, I know I don't know the whole story, the tree may have been a liability. If it was diseased, rotting or dead, one would worry that it carried the potential to cause property damage, or worse, physical damage. My good friend who was also familiar to the tree likened it to a cell tower. And that may be the way the local residents felt towards it; unsightly (I am not bothered by cell towers but have a feeling that this is the general consensus towards them.) The fact that it was chopped down saddens me because it was something that caught my eye; something I got used to looking at that will no longer be there. Pretty or ugly, it was there. And now it isn't. Its absence emphasizes the fact that certainty is never permanent.
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and YES, I would like to be religious but know that I fall short the mark. But in regards to Easter I have always thought that John's gospel put it best (for me) when he said, " and the Word was made flesh". To me, belief in the Ressurection is belief that the flesh was made Word again. The materials of this world including ourselves will change and eventually perish but that Word will always be. That is why Easter holds a particular message for me; the promise of a certain certainty.
But whatever you believe or don't believe I hope that you have a nice Easter or had a nice Passover, or just enjoy your Sunday with the people you hold dear.
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