The Baobab Tree proverb
When bringing teams over to Tanzania, they always want to take pictures of the baobab tree (I have sometimes called it the balboa tree because that is how many locals pronounce it). Various species can grow to be 98 feet tall and 112 feet in diameter and they have been carbon dated at 1275 years old. They are so distinctive that it is a reference point for things like bus stops (my bus stop is at one of these trees before you start up the mountain). They are known as great water sources and food for elephants, Bee Hives and monkeys love to live inside of the hollow center. What I have always loved most about these trees is the folklore surrounding them. My favorite story is about how it used to be the most beautiful tree in all the world. But it lorded it's beauty over all the other plants and tree. It even lorded it beauty over the animals and did not allow them shelter or water or to eat it's leaves. This angered God because He had made this ...