Spring has passed and summer has gone like this. Freddie the leaf grew. He grew wide and strong, and his five leaf tips were strong and upright.
In the spring, he was a newborn shoot, emerging from a large branch at the top of a large tree. Freddie was surrounded by hundreds of leaves, all exactly like him - or so it seemed. However, he soon realized that no two leaves were really the same, even though they all grew on the same tree.
Freddie's left side was Aphrodite, the leaf on his right side was Ben, and on top of his head was the lovely girl, Clay. They had grown up together and learned to dance when the spring breeze blew, to laze around in the summer sun, and to take a dry, clean bath when a cool shower came by chance.
Freddy's best friend was Daniel. He was the biggest leaf on the branch, as if he had grown up before all the other leaves had come. Freddie also thought that Daniel was the smartest.
Daniel told everyone that they were all part of the big tree, that they grew in the park, and that the big tree had strong roots buried deep in the ground. The birds that flew in the morning to sing on the branches, the stars and the moon and the sun in the sky, and the changing of the seasons, whatever it was, Daniel had a reasoned explanation for it.
Freddy thought it was good to be a leaf. He loved his branches, his light leafy friends, his home high up in the sky, the wind that pushed him around, the sun that warmed him up, and the moon that shed its gentle white figure over him.
Summer was especially nice. He loved the long hot days, and the warm dark nights were best for dreaming. That summer, many people came to the park. They all came to Freddie's tree and sat there in the cool.
Daniel told him that giving shade was one of the purposes of the leaves. "What do you mean by purpose?" Freddie asks. "It's the reason for being!" Daniel replies. "Making others feel comfortable is a reason for being.
Shading the elderly so they don't have to hide in a hot house is also a reason for being. Giving little children a cool place to play, and fanning people who are picnicking under the trees with our leaves, all of these, are a reason for being!"
Freddy's favorite thing about old people. They always sat quietly in the cool grass, hardly moving. They murmured and whispered, reminiscing about times gone by. The little children were fun, too, though they sometimes dug holes in the bark of trees or carved their names. Still, it was fun to see little kids run so fast and laugh so much.
But Freddie's summer was quickly coming to an end. Just one night in October, summer suddenly disappeared. Freddie had never been so cold, and all the leaves were shivering with cold.
A thin layer of the white stuff draped over them, and when the sun came out it immediately melted and turned into crystalline dew, making everyone wet. It was Daniel again who told them: they had just experienced their first frost in their lives. It meant that fall was here and winter wasn't far behind.
In an instant, the entire tree, and even the entire park, was tinted with a rich color, and there were hardly any green leaves to be found.
Averie turned a deep yellow, Ben a bright orange, Claire a fiery red, Daniel a deep purple, and Freddie himself half red, half blue, with a touch of gold. How beautiful! Freddie and his friends turned the whole tree like a rainbow.
"We're all in the same tree, why are the colors different?" Freddie asked. "We're not the same one by one! We have different experiences, we face the sun in different directions, we cast different shadows, and of course our colors will be different."
Daniel replied in his usual "it's just the way it is" tone, and told Freddie that this wonderful season was called fall.
One day, something strange happened. In the past, the breeze would have made them dance, but on this day, the wind was pulling at the leaf stalks and pushing them around, almost as if they were angry. As a result, some of the leaves were ripped from the branches, rolled into the air, scraped around, and finally fell gently to the ground.
All the leaves got scared. "What's going on?" They mumbled as you asked me and I asked you. "That's what happens in the fall." Daniel told them, "It's time for the leaves to move. Some people call it dying." "Do we all die?" Freddie asked. "Yes."
Daniel said. "Anything dies. Big or small or strong or weak. We do what needs to be done first. We experience the sun and the moon, the wind and the rain. We learn to dance and laugh. And then we die."
"I don't want to die!" Freddie said firmly. "Are you going to die, Daniel?" "Eh." Daniel replied, "I'll die when the time comes." "And when is that time?" Freddie asked. "No one knows what day it will be." Daniel replied.
Freddy noticed that other leaves kept falling off. He thought, "It must be their time." He saw some leaves struggling and tearing with the wind before they fell, and others just dropped their hands and fell silently. Soon the whole tree was almost empty.
"I'm so scared to die." Freddie said to Daniel, "I don't know what's down there."
"It's natural to be afraid when faced with what you don't know." Daniel reassured him, "But you weren't scared when spring turned to summer. You weren't afraid when summer changed to fall. These are natural changes. Why should you fear the seasons of death?"
"Do our trees die, too?" Freddie asked.
"One day trees will die too. But there is something stronger than trees, and that is life. Life is always there, and we are all part of it."
"Where do we go when we die?"
"No one knows, it's a big secret!"
"Will we come back in the spring?"
"We may not come back, but life will."
"So what's the point of all this?" Freddie continued to ask.
"If we're going to fall and die anyway, then why are we even here?"
Daniel replied in his usual "it's meant to be" tone, "It's for the sun and the moon, it's for the fun times we all have together, it's for the shade of the trees, the old people and the little children, it's for the colors of fall, it's for the seasons, isn't that enough? "
That afternoon, in the golden sunlight of dusk, Daniel let go. He walked away without a struggle. As he fell, he seemed to smile serenely. "Goodbye for now, Freddie." He said. And then Freddie was left alone, he was the only leaf left on that branch.
Early the next morning, the first snow fell. The snow was very soft and white, but it was cold as hell. There was hardly any sunlight that day, and the days were unusually short. Freddie found his color fading and becoming dry and brittle.
It was so cold all the time, and the snow felt so heavy on his body. In the early hours of the morning, a gust of wind carried Freddie away from his branch. It didn't hurt at all, and he felt himself floating down quietly and gently and softly.
As he fell downward, he saw the whole tree for the first time, what a strong, solid tree! He was quite sure that the tree would live for a long time to come, and he felt proud to know that he had been a part of its life.
Freddy landed on a snowbank. The snowdrift was soft and even warm. He felt more comfortable than ever in this new position. He closed his eyes and fell asleep. He didn't know that spring would come after winter or that the snow would melt into water.
He did not know that his body, which seemed dry and useless, would join the snow and water to make the tree stronger. Especially, he didn't know that slumbering in the trees and the land was the life of new leaves next spring.
"A Leaf Falls" is written by (American) Bascaria.
This is a fairy tale about life. The author shows the journey of life and expounds the value of life existence through the story of a leaf going through four seasons. The text is simple and affectionate, the moral is deep and long, and the picture is fresh and simple, suitable for life education materials.
This is a fairy tale about life.
On the title page of the book it is written, "This book is dedicated to children who have experienced the parting of life and death, and to adults who can't explain such things."
This is the only illustrated work left by the American author Leo Pasqualeglia.
In fact, this leaf of Freddie is every one of us.
Expanded Information
Dr. Leo Pasqualea, a world-renowned speaker and author, was a professor of special education at the University of Southern California, where he was the first to formally offer a course on love, which has been welcomed by students and people from all walks of life. He was the first to formally introduce a course on "love" at the university, which was welcomed by students and people from all walks of life.
His major works include Love One Another, Live, Love, Learn, Love, and Bus 9 to Heaven. The Fall of Freddie Leaf is the only picture book he left behind.
On June 12, 1998, Leo Basquaglia died at age 74 of heart failure at his home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The next day, a note was found on his typewriter that read, "A minute of unhappiness is a minute of lost joy."
Whenever someone introduces me, I'm overjoyed if they can pronounce my name correctly. I love saying my first name because it contains all five vowels in the alphabet and is a beautiful Italian name. My last name is spelled B-u-S-C-a-g-l-i-a, but there are many different ways of pronouncing it . The funniest thing about this last name happened when I was making a long distance phone call once. The phone was busy and the operator said she would come to the phone to call me as soon as the line was connected. When she came to the phone I picked up the receiver and heard her say, "Excuse me, tell Dr. Box Car that the call he wants is connected." I said, "You mean Buscaglia, right?" She said, "Sir, whatever you call it."
Love, Live, Learn is the masterpiece of author Leo Buscaglia!
The various essays collected in this book also act as such bridges. They present some of the thoughts, ideas and feelings that the author is happy to share. Only love can comfort the wounds and hardships of growing up; only life can sharpen the clarity and practice of the mind; and only learning can round out and harmonize our love and life for a beautiful life.
Every stage of life has questions waiting to be answered: how to face others, how to face love, how to face fear, how to face the family as well as feelings and marriage, money and culture, aging and death ...... In the hustle and bustle of modern life, stop and give yourself a chance to re-examine yourself and reread the essential life lessons! opportunity to re-examine yourself and reread life's essential lessons!
Selected Chapters of Love, Life, Learning
Today, I am here to give you a lecture on love, which I call "Love in the Classroom". How brave of you to allow me to come here and speak of love in the classroom. I am often asked to disguise the word love, or at least to put a few words before and after it.
You see, it's like, "Love is the power to change behavior." That sounds scientific and won't scare anyone away. I did the same thing when I taught a love class on a college campus, and all my coworkers would run into me on the road and giggle and poke me and say, "Hey, is there a love lab class on Saturday?" I had to assure them that there wasn't.
I'd like to give you a little background on how I got the idea to talk about love in the classroom. About five years ago, I was interviewed by the dean of our College of Education when I had just resigned from my position as chair of the special education department in a large school district in California after deciding that I couldn't be an administrator and wanted to go back to being a teacher.
The dean, a very orthodox man, sat behind a large writing desk. As soon as I sat down, he asked me, "Bascaria, what courses do you want to teach in the next five years?" Without hesitation, I answered, "I want to teach a class on love." He froze, silent, as still as you are right now. Then he cleared his throat and said, "What other classes would you like to teach?"
I started such a class two years later with twenty students. Now I have two hundred students, and there are six hundred more who can't get in line. The last time school started, it only took twenty minutes for my class to register full. This shows how excited and enthusiastic the students are about taking the love class ......
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