life-long songs

A sister of mine showed me this website today:

http://traubeck.com/years/

This artist has created a record player that has the capability to play wooden records. Which means that this player can literally vocalize the rings of wood that symbolize a tree's life.

The sound is haunting and melodic--inspirational and timely--slow and steady.

It sounds like a tree. It sounds like a tree growing and the years passing through the branches. It sounds like what I would imagine a tree's voice sounds like, if a tree were to speak in piano.

But that's all we as humans can appreciate. The music is created by the years of wear and tear on the living being--the years of storms and wind and drought. We cannot begin to understand the life-long musical arrangements that happen with everyone and everything alive. We create our own stories and albums in our lives, but cannot record a whole life.

This is such a beautiful way to sense a life without viewing or smelling it. or touching it. It is the most complete way I have ever heard life explained-- long parts of sturdy quiet and short bursts of activity.

If you're a "reader" of mine, you already know how I adore nature. Trees are the penultimate nature force to me. I love the ocean and the seas and the rivers, for water is life, but trees...

Well, trees are magical. Have been around since magic was rampant and will be around until it is rampant again.

I love listening to trees. And this tree-music is no exception.