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the wind rushed though the mountains with a strength and fury that
none of its inhabitants had ever experienced. even the old growth
trees couldn't remember a storm of this magnitude. one lone redwood
seperated from its kind stood tall and proud on the shore of a small
lake.
For Years The Redwood Had Grown Taller, And Taller, till Her Head was Far above the ground. it wasn't till this night that she concerned herself with the ground below. all her years of growth she only concerned herself with that which would help her grow taller, like the others of the kind she only wanted to get higher and higher -the sky is the limit, and so far as she could tell it was endless. but oh how the wind did blow, such a cruel thing ,the wind, it cared little for the intended dreams of a tree. its only job was to move, and get to its distend location. she began to sway, violently. she cursed how high she was, she cursed that she hadn't stayed her pace. all of a sudden she was no longer swaying, a loud crack had torn her trunk and she was falling. as she fell, breaking the branches of other smaller trees she began to weap. was this her cost for growing the way nature intended? her eyes were fixed on the ground where she would lie. but something small caught her eye, in the lake near the
shore a small lilly pad was being ravished by the violent waves. with out words this small plant spoke to she. it asked why something so small and innocent should suffer such cruelty among its watery home. her fall slowed to a sobering rate. she empathised with this defenceless green pad. she felt compassion for it. and in this moment of compassion she changed the course of the fall, she reached down with her slender arms and made a shelter for the lilly, her fingers dug deep into the soil below the water. she died that night, but something remained, her roots sprouted other trees, and her branches that where thrown down to protect the helpless flower remained.
she became a beautiful spectacl of nature, a savior of that which
would otherwise have had no means of protection itself.