Tree of Life: Branching Out Featuring Ruth Long

/ WriterlySam

treeoflife_branchingout_badgeWelcome to the TREE OF LIFE: Branching Out collaborative writing challenge, where creative minds meet epic movie music. To read the collective story in its entirety as it unfolds and for more details on this groundbreaking collaboration with Audiomachine click HERE.

Today I’m featuring the runaway imagination of the gifted storyteller, Ruth Long. Check out life from a writer’s point of view at BULLISH INK

* Listen to the inspiring track from Audiomachine’s Tree of Life album featured in the sidebar music player

Inspiring Soundtrack: Audiomachine – The Truth – Tree of Life

The leather-clad rider swung down from the saddle, tattered russet duster flapping behind him like the banner of a long-forgotten realm, tawny hair swishing in the breeze like the tail of his chestnut mount. “From the dust we come and to the dust we return.”

“How did you come by this wisdom?” she asked, eyes, ears, and heart as wide as the ocean.

He scooped up a handful of soil, and let it sift through his fingers like the sands of time. “Because I am the Adam who came before, the one who lives now, and the one who is yet to come.”

She crouched beside him. “Then you must know what I am to do with this gift.”

His smile was gentle. “Consider this: what matters most is how you spend those precious heartbeats between rising from dust and returning to it. This is the truth that never changes, the story of our days, the root of the Tree of Life.”

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© 2013 Ruth Long

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15 thoughts on “Tree of Life: Branching Out Featuring Ruth Long”

  4. LOVE the imagery and description of “Adam”–I do hope our writers will develop their relationship further and explore the quest set out before them! Fantastic interpretation of the music!

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  7. Hi Ruth,

    Profound, my friend. And the heartbeats from the dust risen to the dust in the wind once more. A very thoughtful continuation to this collaboration.

    With respect and fulfilling writing, your way,

    Gary

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