Distilled Spirits

When I was a newcomer, I visited a grove of redwood trees. The trees, on average, were three hundred feet tall, and yet their roots were only six or eight feet deep. That would be like someone six feet tall trying to carry fifty of themselves stacked one on top of each other. However, the roots of these trees reached out sixty to eighty feet and wove together with the roots of surrounding trees. Each tree, therefore, was supported by all the trees in the community, and the trees not only survive, they thrive. I began to comprehend, as I walked through that grove, a powerful message about AA.