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| The Scooby Gang would be proud London, ON April 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
I first came across it a few years back while hiking through the valley. It was mid-winter, so it was covered in snow, and of all the snow-covered trees I happened across on that cold, grey morning, this was the one that I hovered over for entirely too long.
On every subsequent forest walk, I’d make a point of stretching my route just far enough so that I could return to this tree. In April, I captured this image just before the leaves grew in, and I’m thinking now would be a good time to head back for an update.
I can’t explain why this tree has become so resonant to me, or why none of the countless other trees nearby has become nearly as embedded in my brain. We’re creatures of habit, I suppose, and over time each of us seems to accumulate our own unique collections of things and experiences that bring us comfort.
Planet Earth is hardly a place of comfort these days. So I seek out a single tree in the forest for an occasional moment of quiet familiarity before climbing back out of the valley and into the real world.
It isn’t much of a coping strategy, but it’s what seems to be working for now.
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