Life’s Teaching Moments- The Tree of Life And The Colours We Hide 🍁

Fall 2025

I read the most beautiful literature this week, that is very symbolic of life. I personally believe there is no such thing as perfection, learning is CONSTANT. In addition, we are unique with our approaches to solve problems given the obstacles we had to overcome. I often will say I am perfectly “imperfect”. A play on words. One very important piece of advice that became abundantly clear in my years of age so far, is the deep need to be connected to authenticity. My authentic self, surrounded by authentic people and experiences. I consider this the rich part of life, nature is authentic to me so I spend a lot of time in it.

The generation of people I work with are amazingly authentic, one lady in her 90’s said to me “what you see is what you get and it ain’t all sunshine and rainbows, but I am the real deal”. That stuck with me!

Many people thought she was an angry lady, but she was not. She outlived her two children and her husband, she was tired and lonely. If she showed you her photo albums, she talked forever.

Okay now onto the amazing analogy…

Here is from Peace, Love and Healing written by Bernie Siegel M. D

A few years ago, in the fall, I was thinking about why the leaves turn colour every autumn. For that matter, why are we human beings all different shapes, sizes, colors? What is the message in this?

I think that every spring when the leaves come out, if you look closely you'll see that each one is slightly different. Some are reddish, some bright green, some pale, and they have different shapes and sizes too.

But picture yourself as a maple leaf coming out. You think of how you can express yourself by manifesting your uniqueness, but the other leaves on the tree say, "Hey, this is a maple tree, fit in. You'll be green and this shape. Do you want people to look at us and point and say

'What a funny tree'?" You want to be liked, so during the spring and the summer, when the sun is shining and you have plenty of food, you turn the same green as everybody else, take the same shape and fit in.

Then the fall comes and it gets cold, and some of the guys who were telling you how to behave start dropping. You're still hanging on, but you realize that you're not going to be able to hang on forever, and if you're not, then you'd like to let every one know who you really are before you let go of the Tree of Life.

So the green, which is a cover-up, goes, and you become your unique individual beautiful self.

Then you hang on as long as you want.

There are still some dried-up scrawny leaves hanging on even in January. But this is an individual choice-how long you want to hold on to the Tree of Life, how long before you can feel that you've shown your true colors and lived your life. If you have lived and had your moment, then it will be much easier to let go. You will know and your loved ones will know your unique beauty, and it will be something they remember and live with, then you truly achieve immortality.

There you have it! True Colours

Have an amazing weekend,

Danielle Pointon

Live Blue Consulting