One thing that can hinder a writer's concentration with storyline is the kind of situation wherein somebody out there is trying to stop your way of thinking. Call that manipulation or "clear cutting of idea." Something new?
Maybe, maybe not. Clear cutting of idea not the clear cutting of trees in the forest.
I have two pictures in this blog entry which is a part of a tree. Can you recognize what kind of tree this piece of log came from? How about how old is this log or piece of wood?
The only way you can probably knew the age of the tree is by counting the rings of the trunk of this wood. The rings are called annual rings, each ring means one year of its life is used for its growth. If you can identify the dark spots and light spots of the wood it will show those years of its life when the wood is darker the rainfall on that period of time is more than what is consumed and light spots of the annual rings meant that less rain and drought is experienced on that environment and period of time where and when that tree is harvested.
This small piece of log is in the forest close to a swamp, and a lake. The lighter color of its annual rings didn't show much darker spot in it. That means this tree didn't receive much water. How could that be? The answer would be > in the forest where millions of trees surround each other, young trees are protected from dripping water from above, or from the sky. Giant trees , or bigger trees keep them covered thereby the smaller trees doesn't get the water for them to thrive best. Can you figure that out now?
Andrew Douglass, an astronomer who discovered and expanded the knowledge for the so called TREE RING RESEARCH at University of Arizona. Thanks to him that Dendrochronology is one of the most important valuable study of tree and science of time. It is through his scientific research that through the study of the oldest tree they were able to pinpoint the order of time and what happened in those years. KInd of chronologically enhancing the kind of environment during those period of time when testaments, old books, chronicles, and other medium of history are not enough.
What Andrew and other scientist have discovered only every eleven years the dark spots seemed to be active. They called this active years as the SUNSPOTS.
Note: The Tree Ring Reserach is best represented artistically and enigmatically in the movie of Jet Li's HERO wherein he is in search for the "missing link" in the ancient library. He was seen holding the sword sideways and on top of the sword is a cup of water. I found that scene very informative. Very interesting! Encore!
