Confronting Our Fences

Recognizing repetitive events that spark new possibilities.

Bob Olson is the host of Afterlife TV, author of Answers About The Afterlife and The Magic Mala, and founder of the directory of credible and reputable psychics and mediums, BestPsychicDirectory.com.

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If you read my article about “attention vs. intention,” you know lightning struck a tree in my front yard last August. A few days after the lightning strike, the injured tree broke off about halfway toward the top. That ten-foot length of tree landed on a fence, crushing it like Godzilla stomping on skyscrapers.

When lightning struck the tree, it split down the middle, exploding one side of the tree into hundreds of pieces in every direction. I used a giant rake implement on my Kubota tractor to rake up the pieces. As I was raking up 3-to-5-foot lengths of pine, I drove the tractor between two trees and watched the rake behind me to be sure it would clear both tree trunks. It cleared just fine, but the tractor's front bucket clipped a fence post in front of me, busting it in half. Yes, I drove into another part of the fence as I was looking backward. It was a total amateur tractor-operator move, but one I hope I’ll remember.

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