The Crooked Tree

When I had the opportunity to ask Nora Bateson how she would visually depict the new word she created, Symmathesy, she said it would be a crooked tree. Nature shows us many wonders that we can learn from. A crooked tree is an example of a deeper question. How did any tree become crooked when others surrounding it have not? We are not accustomed to thinking in terms of the deeper more complex inter-relational aspects of what we see and how we experience our reality and more importantly how we are learning from one another as happens in nature.

Symmathesy: the process of contextual mutual learning through interaction.