weird

Sometimes when I'm in the subway or on the street I'll send people who look like they need it a little energy (or love or reiki or whatever the heck you want to call it.) It could be because they're homeless or maybe they're really old or sick or sometimes it's just because they look sad...

It's pretty simple. I (unobtrusively) turn my palm towards them and send out good wishes. That's all there is to it. Don't know if it ever makes a difference, but I do it anyway...

That's not the weird part.

Today - on this most magnificent day - when I was walking in the park I saw a gorgeous old tree that was about to be cut down. They had taped off the area around it, and you could see how a storm (or perhaps simply time) had worn away one side of the tree all the way to the center, making it unsafe. And as I was passing I instinctively turned my palm toward the tree. When I realized what I was doing I was momentarily embarrassed - yes, you can be embarrassed all by yourself - and was about to stop. But then something popped into my head: "Everyone should have someone with them when they're about to pass out of this life... " Wait a minute - Everyone?

Yes, I'm a cuckoo-nut-bird - I'm not even going to argue that- but usually not in this particular way. The idea of us 'all being one' is something that I understand to be true as a philosophical concept, but very rarely experience - and certainly not with plant life. But for some reason today 'we' included a tree in Riverside park. And that tree got reiki before it died.