Thursday, November 22, 2007

What Exactly is Psychic Forestry

Novel name for a Blog, eh? In my younger years I worked for the U.S. Forest Service marking and measuring trees in timber sales. A great job if you like to walk through the woods for hours on end and use your brain. You choose trees according to a "silvicultural prescription" that assures a healthy forest while some trees are removed. After observing and measuring trees day after day, you get pretty good at estimating the diameter and height of trees. "Oh, that one is 65 feet tall and 9.5 inches DBH (Diameter Breast Height)." No magic, just time and experience, sorta like we all do in life. Anyway, we got really good at "knowing" the exact measurements of a tree just by looking at it. Perhaps accurate beyond what was overtly possible... Assessing things in life should be so easy, eh?! So Psychic Forestry encompasses that set of internal judgements and calculations we make every day, hopefully becoming more and more accurate in understanding and dealing with life's variables and challenges as we make our journey. At times beyond the measure of logic....

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