You may remember that I blogged a few months ago about the Cotoneaster tree that they cut down in “my” courtyard outside my office at work.
As a small act of protest, I took one of the branches and stuck it in the ground with a sign reading “RIP Tree”.
Well, you could have knocked us all down with a feather when one of my co-workers pointed out the the “stick” had sprouted! The Tree Lives!

About Schütz
I am a PhD candidate & sessional academic at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia. After almost 10 years in ministry as a Lutheran pastor, I was received into the Catholic Church in 2003. I worked for the Archdiocese of Melbourne for 18 years in Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations. I have been editor of Gesher for the Council of Christians & Jews and am guest editor of the historical journal “Footprints”. I have a passion for pilgrimage and pioneered the MacKillop Woods Way.
Which is why it is a noxious weed. (Just ask the Krohns about the invasion of such plants from the property next door. And I am forever digging up seedlings from our neighbours. Get the gardeners to put in something attractive.
Wood hath hope.