Celtic Gambel Knot

I love it when something really unexpected shows up...dancing outside the box I place things in, making the old, new. The unique Celtic knotwork, which revealed itself in the roots of a Gambel oak, has caused me to explore the world with child-like wonder, knowing that magic is afoot!

I’m not sure how I ever came across this beautiful design at the base of the roots of a Gambel oak. When I saw it the second time, I realized my memory had played a trick on me.  Initially I thought it was about the size of a baseball, but when I returned, it was the size of a thumbprint!  This sort of thing happens fairly often, much like when I return home to the farm and visit the places that seemed huge when I was young…only to realize they were quite small.  Perhaps there are times that I engage in the child-like presence and I’m literally seeing, and experiencing things at a different scale.  Perhaps it has nothing to do with age, as we often believe, but with the magical frame of reference, where the energy of the childhood perspective is really more than a reference point, but reality.

So, when I came across this on my trek, it was because I was intentionally slowing down and anticipating the hidden miracles since I had found some of the trumpet lichen earlier.  Now that I think about it, I couldn’t find the trumpet lichen on the next two hikes either, even though they seemed to jump out on me the day I came across them. 

And, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this on the Gambel oak before, so it changes the reality of what is possible in the universe. I like that because it makes me wonder where else I’ve thought I know all there is to know, or what I know is an absolute. This all takes me back to the initial premises - what if the child mind is actually operating in an entirely different time and spatial universe?This would also fit with the belief that time flies by as we get older. Does time somehow escape us, or is the child