{"id":9945,"date":"2015-09-21T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T11:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/?p=9945"},"modified":"2015-09-21T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T11:49:35","slug":"en-the-wisdom-of-the-banana-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/en-the-wisdom-of-the-banana-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The wisdom of the banana tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"text_article\" class=\"pos_left width-440 article-magacin\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bananier2b-w1-e1442836026301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9951\" src=\"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bananier2b-w1-e1442836026301.jpg\" alt=\"bananier2b w\" width=\"594\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bananier2b-w1-e1442836026301.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bananier2b-w1-e1442836026301-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a>I have a banana tree in my studio.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(normal for a comic book workshop)!<br \/>\nEach time I transplant it into a bigger pot, it grows until its roots finish taking over the new area of soil.<br \/>\n(Aaaarg\u2026 STOP! Stop growing!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>NO ROOTS, NO FRUIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is vital in a tree is what is not seen\u2026 In our case, humans (as far as giraffes are concerned, I am not too sure\u2026), it\u2019s intimacy with God!<\/p>\n<p>The more you extend your <strong>daily quality time with him<\/strong> (not just: \u2018I pray when my wife is driving\u2019 or \u2018while I am brushing my teeth\u2019&#8230;\u00a0The more you will grow\u2026 And the more bananas you will have in your life (and bananas \u2026 they\u2019re so good!)!<\/p>\n<p>Today I am <strong>walking in the forest<\/strong> once again\u2026<br \/>\nMy path always goes through there (Oh that it had done a sudden runner to the Bahamas during the night\u2026)!<br \/>\nThe morning, in perfect complicity with the dew,\u00a0coats the sides of the path with a glistening sparkle!<\/p>\n<p>I ask God for nothing\u2026\u00a0other than to be closer to Him\u2026\u00a0\u2018All fullness dwells in Jesus\u2019,\u00a0Colossians 1:19 (a passage in the Bible).\u00a0Piece of advice for a <strong>\u2018smart perspective\u2019<\/strong>: if you have Jesus, you have everything!!<br \/>\nSuddenly on my path I see something amazing: thick, visible roots\u2026<br \/>\n\u2026that perks me up and <strong>I get a \u2018banana\u2019 smile<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> I have planted lots of baobabs (that\u2019s one of the biggest trees in the world!) all over my studio, but I no longer know where\u2026Well, they are really tiny seeds\u2026Oh dear! I have a hunch that they also have something to say to me<br \/>\n\u2026With all these plants with the gift of the gab surrounding me while I make comic books, there is a cacophony!<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearer\">\u00a0Alain Auderset<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a banana tree in my studio. (normal for a comic book workshop)! Each time I transplant it into a bigger pot, it grows until its roots finish taking over the new area of soil. (Aaaarg\u2026 STOP! Stop growing!) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/en-the-wisdom-of-the-banana-tree\/\">More&#8230;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/en-the-wisdom-of-the-banana-tree\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9954,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions\/9954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}