I have always said to myself or to others “I want to go home” which having read this inspiring and provocative writing of Yassir’s seems another lens into Rootedness and those metaphors beautifully evoked here. “You too are to be uprooted.” is a dynamic and extraordinary challenge to ponder more deeply issues of nostalgia, safety, courage and risk. I have come to appreciate that ‘home’ or ‘root’ will always be just beyond the next rise, and that the seeking of it is in fact, the opportunity of our lives, if we are privileged with freedom.
Beautiful, Yassir, you expressed the sense of belonging and what it means very creatively. I also write similarly about trees, nature, belonging, and paint trees, too. Cheers to you, thank you, and please keep going with your work!
In this time of so much destruction–to the natural environment and to communities and social networks–uprootedness is the perfect metaphor to describe the chaos so many people are experiencing.
Thanks Fred, you bring in a dimension I have not touched upon but is part of unrootedness that many are experiencing. Certainly when it comes to the natural world and the interwoven communities of species that depend upon it, we are the ones responsible.
I have always said to myself or to others “I want to go home” which having read this inspiring and provocative writing of Yassir’s seems another lens into Rootedness and those metaphors beautifully evoked here. “You too are to be uprooted.” is a dynamic and extraordinary challenge to ponder more deeply issues of nostalgia, safety, courage and risk. I have come to appreciate that ‘home’ or ‘root’ will always be just beyond the next rise, and that the seeking of it is in fact, the opportunity of our lives, if we are privileged with freedom.
"the seeking of it is in fact, the opportunity of our lives"
YES!
Beautiful, Yassir, you expressed the sense of belonging and what it means very creatively. I also write similarly about trees, nature, belonging, and paint trees, too. Cheers to you, thank you, and please keep going with your work!
Great post, Yassir.
In this time of so much destruction–to the natural environment and to communities and social networks–uprootedness is the perfect metaphor to describe the chaos so many people are experiencing.
Thanks Fred, you bring in a dimension I have not touched upon but is part of unrootedness that many are experiencing. Certainly when it comes to the natural world and the interwoven communities of species that depend upon it, we are the ones responsible.