My sweetie has been bothered by an incomplete pruning job for the past few weeks. So he belted on my pruning saw, climbed up a ladder, and into the hemlock tree.
Yes, that's an 83-year-old man hanging by one hand in a tree--20 feet off the ground. All for the aesthetics of sawing off one offending branch.
Is this an example of "older and wiser"?
What is wiser, anyway? What is wisdom?
Part of wisdom is having good judgment. Judgment doesn't necessarily need to be good or bad, right or wrong.
Wisdom can simply discriminate between what is a skillful action and what is an unskillful action.
My sweetie had an exciting time climbing the tree, and he was very pleased with how the tree looks now--minus one branch.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Older and Wiser (?)
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