a monument

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recently ERP/PLM Administrator at NDS Surgical Imaging Chris Ciraulo asked the following question up on LinkedIn Answers …

What would your monument be?

The Pyramids of Egypt, the Roman Colleseum, the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China…

If you were given the task of creating a new monument to stand the test of time and unlimited resources, what would it be and where would you put it? Be creative!

As much as I know my recent thoughtworks veer toward nature … both natural elements from the woods and from the oceans … items like pinecones and seashells, acorns and sea-polished stones … I was nicely surprised by my answer to Chris’ question ( see below ) :

the willow heart of human hope

I would create a concrete tree … a very large tree … concrete or marble … some sort of stone … leaves and all … a tree of North America … lights, there would be lights inside the canopy of the tree … maybe a huge willow tree … something you could go into and witness together with others … you could look up into it and it would be like an internal constellation of sorts … it would represent the human heart of hope … light … joy …

It would represent enlightenment and protection. Shelter. Natural shelter. The sort of comfort you can only feel when embraced in the arms of nature Herself.

Not the tree that they nailed Jesus Christ to. Not the tree of eternal suffering. Suffering of the child. No, no … nothing of the sort.

The tree … this natural willow heart of human hope … she would stand alone, larger than life … offering comfort … the tree would have a halo. A tree that somehow achieved martyrdom … a saintly status in the form of a weeping willow. Perhaps the tree Herself is also a fountain. A fountain tree of hope and light and trickling streams of joy … warm water. A true symbol of growth and healing. Growth, healing and comfort.

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