A Ponderment

What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain knowledge must precede every action. The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. ... I certainly do not deny that I still recognize an imperative of knowledge and that through it one can work upon men, but it must be taken up into my life, and that is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

--S.K.

The Tree that owns itself

I came across this and thought it endearing and that I had to share.  What a rich story, whether it is true or not.  Click the wiki link to read more, but it is about the 'tree that owns itself'--crazy, right?!  But it is said that the owner deeded the tree ownership of itself and the land it sat on, in an eight foot circumference.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_tree_that_owns_itself