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Enchanted Walkabouts!John Springer, orginally from Indianapolis, IN and now lives in the Orlando, FL area, has a business called Landscape Walkabouts conducting Property Inventories, Residential Landscape Design and Plant Assessments. John has a BS in Landscape Architecture with minors in Forestry, Art & Interior Design from Purdue University. His Master's background in Environmental Science/Science Education from FIT, BCC, UCF, involves writing programs for the State of Florida and at least seven Environmental Education Centers throughout FL and GA starting in the early 70's. His early nature & earth awareness came in his early childhood on a 40-acre farm in IN and 4-H. He earned the William T Hornaday Award for Distinguished Service to Conservation in 1964 through the Boy Scouts, which John is an Eagle Scout with Thirty Years experience. He has created two Scout Camporees entitled Touch The Earth in the 1980s. He is currently a Conservation Advisor with several different organizations to encourage more youth participation and connections to conservation, nature and the environment.John is a Lightworker/Networker & Community Builder as he has created the following groups around FL and the Southeast: The GOLD [Gathering Of Light Delegates] Group, OMS [Orlando Metaphysical Society], HUG [Healers Under God] & HUGS [Healers Under Great Spirit] Groups, CAN [Conscious Awareness Network], The Enchanted Children's Garden & Yalaha Garden Council, FAE [Fairy And Earth] School and others. Presently John is an Instructor in the Enchanted curriculum at the Misty Forest Academy; a co-facilitator of Enchanted Walkabouts; a Guide for Enchanted Zoo Walks at the Central Florida Zoo and many other places all around Florida. John is a Reiki Master/Level 3 and has a Doctor of Divinity from the Pan American Ministries, John and his wife, playmate and best friend, Patricia are always assisting people to discover the joys of this planet and our connections to the other realms. John claims is a member of the Church of the Tree. Contact John directly at b_in_joy@hotmail.com or 407-704-2320. Our mailing address is: P. O. Box 300984; Fern Park, FL: 32730-0984. WHEN IN DOUBT, BLOW BUBBLES I AM!!! I am a Landscape Designer I am John S. Springer. I am Peace. I am!
b_in_joy@hotmail.com
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BE A TREE! A tree is human! Well. not really, but if you were to compare a tree to a human you would begin to wonder. Let's look at this comparison more closely. Look at a tree and then yourself. Now image yourself planted in the ground with your waist at groundlevel. This puts you on a more even basis with the tree. As you stand there, image your legs as tap roots, spreading and holding you firm in the ground. Your feet also become roots to keep you from tripping and falling. Your toes become root hairs feeling and seeking through the earth to obtain a better support for your body. Looming above the ground appears your trunk holding your chest and stomach. Within your trunk is your heartwood that powers and supports your body. Your arms now become limbs reaching outwards towards the sky. Fingers form small limbs and twigs holding your leaves. Leaves supply the food needed for survival and supplies the air you breathe. With these leaves as your head, you become stronger and are able to withstand the elements and you provide homes for smaller living beings in your crown. Holding your frame together is your skin as does bark for the tree. The outer bark represents your dry outer skin while your inner bark contains your nerves, blood vessels, and living tissue which sustains your growth. Now, if one were to remove a limb from your trunk, it would be like taking your arm or leg. Likewise, with any other part of the human body, as compared with the structure of a tree. Injuries may occur and result in scarring in the same process as on humans as with tree. A cut or scratch will sometimes scar your skin as what may occur on the body of a tree. Puncture wounds, such as those caused by nails, will increase the possibilities of disease to enter the body unless it is protected or retarted. If disease does enter your system, it is likely to slow your growth, deform your structure, increase aging and weaken your body. But, disease can be eliminated through treatment and medication, although eventually through time you will die and decay away. The tree and ourselves are not alike in every way, however we do need and depend upon each other. We take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide, whereas the tree takes in carbon dioxide and gives off oxygen. This respiratory action of trees and other green plants take place during the day, but at night plants reverse their beathing process. Therefore, we need trees to survive. Protect your fellow living beings, for we could die without them. They really don's need us, but we do need them! Save our trees, for they may be human in disguise! ARE YOU A TREE? WHAT KIND OF TREE ARE YOU? |
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