Saturday, January 24, 2009

Back to Naming -- Part 8

Consider the tree.

Walking with a dear friend, we stop in front of a tree. It's a tree all right! That is its name. It doesn't think, "I am a tree." It just is.

We start to wonder. What kind of tree is this? I watch the tree dissolve into our minds as we discuss the possibilities.

When we analyze the thing, we usually kill it.

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