Wood Thinking

When I was a young boy I thought that wood was made by the tree roots from eating soil. When I was older I learnt that almost all wood is made from a gas in the air called carbon dioxide; the same gas we breathe out. When I breathe out, some of the molecules end up fixed in wood. Using just sunlight as energy, a tree will gather carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into wood. 

To me this is amazing, from a tiny seed a tree will grow into a giant structure made of mostly carbon in the air. 

Gold is everywhere, there is gold on the moon, gold particles fall on your roof every day, there is gold throughout the galaxy and universe but wood is rare, as far as we know it only exists on the surface of earth. 

Snow revelation

Nearly ten years ago in April 2008 there was a freak snow blizzard in the UK. It was the middle of spring so it was not supposed to happen.

The snow had a powerful affect on me and changed my life. I had time off from my work so  I intended to meet up with friends and go out for fun. What happened was I was forced to stay at home. While I was at home I looked at the snow and sat down and was lost in thought. At some point I questioned the morals of eating meat and the cruelty that may be involved.

On that day I became a vegetarian. I have been a vegetarian ever since then nearly ten years on. My vegtable based diet has caused my body to age in a different way. I have the blood pressure of a teenager and the health of a man half my age. If I continued to eat meat, my health would be very different.

Now it is March 2018 and I have been at home for a while to avoid the snow. A storm from Portugal collided with cold air from Russia above my country so it has been snowing non stop for 2 days.

I was thinking about the affects that the background music from the TV show "how it is made" and how it makes me energised and changes my mood. I found out that it is very similar to the background music from Sonic the Hedgehog computer game. I realised that the reason the music was making me energised was because it was tapping into a mental state left behind when I was a child. The music from the computer game was changing my mood and making me feel I want to win and struggle to overcome the challenge. The 16 bit lyric free beat of the music was changing my mood into an energised proactive state.

From this day I will use music to put my mind into the right gear. If I feel tired I will play "Sonic the Hedgehog" computer game music. If I feel sad I will play "super hang on" music. If I need energy I will play Mario Cart music.

The snow caused me to become a vegetarian and now it was caused me to become a man that controls his mood with music by forcing me to be still and think deeply. Body and mind are changed. I can only thank God for inspiration and thought. Let my gratitude flow like a river of Gold and silver and a valley of light. May my light shine like a lantern in the cave where no darkness can stay.