There is a big walnut tree in our garden, and for weeks, we’ve been waiting to collect the nuts that are hanging up there in abundance.
We picked up a few nuts here in there in the last week, yet I only recently learnt, that walnut trees drop most of their nuts within a day or two.
So, for two nights in a row now, I hear nuts banging on the terrace or against the roof and windows, sometimes every five minutes. If someone stood underneath the tree, chances are high that one of those nuts would fall right on their head, I thought…
It feels as if the tree almost drops them with full force and power; or maybe the fruit is now so ready that it can’t wait to find its way to the ground, pulled by gravity.
It’s such a tremendous and intense falling down, that I find it truly remarkable to witness. Instead of little by little, it’s in one blow, almost all at once. A rain of nuts.
‘Doing it fully or not doing it at all’ is what comes to my mind. When something is ready, release it, let it go, let it find its way, but don’t hold on to it with no fibre of your being.
Maybe the tree is also using the support of the winds and rains of the last days to have some extra power to shake off its fruits.
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Whatever it is, today I’m thinking that at times maybe we need to be a bit like the walnut tree and release whatever we’ve been working on with full force. Letting it go and enter into the world, free to find its own way from here on.
The nuts are mostly collected now. We made sure to leave some for the mice and squirrels and birds as well.
Thank you walnut tree for these little treasures.