Tree behind Christ's Church, Oxford

Amorella here. I chose this picture because it has a special meaning for orndorff. Notice how the tree limbs grow into one another. The scholarly guide with the hat is explaining that this tree that sets in the semi-private garden behind Christ’s Church, Oxford inspired two one time Oxford writers, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Richard immediately thought upon seeing the limbs strange growths – “Quantum Mechanics. Wow.”

It’s true, Amorella, I did. I thought of Lewis Carroll and Alice Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There and here we are. I am touching the bark of this tree. I am also inspired, but not to write. I am inspired to think on the secret wonders of nature and the secret wonders of the mind. Then, at that moment, I realized the wonders of both are one in the same.

After hearing that this particular tree also inspired J.J.R. Tolkien to write of the trees in Middle Earth I realized how much I also love trees, particularly this tree in the semi-private garden behind Christ’s Church. The scholarly guide had called it, “The Jabberwocky Tree,” but I like to call it, "The Thinking It Out Tree." >>

As you may have noticed, this afternoon I added the above photo to yesterday's post and I have yet to discover how to delete it without deleting Amorella's opening words. I will not delete her words so for now please ignore the photo on yesterday's post. One of the problems with having a personality such as Amorella's within my mind is that I have to respect her presence. This is not always an easy thing to do although I have survived these twenty some years sharing space-in-mind. She only works through my fingertips on the keyboard as a writer's friend. A few times I have overstepped her boundary and I pay for it immediately.

What Richard is attempting to say here, though he is at loss of words to do so, is that I, strangely enough, have at times affected the nerves in his right arm from elbow to wrist, which induces a short electrical-like shock. His human imperfections show up in mind immediately and he has to let them go as if they are sins, which they are not. This is the way it is. I am in here, stuck as he is, and we both have to pay the piper for it. - Amorella.