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| Trusted canopy London, ON September 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
24 years since 9/11. Or 24 hours removed since the high-profile political assassination of Charlie Kirk and the ensuing tsunami of conflicting rage online. Or any number of other frightening headlines that somehow burrow their way into our once-inviolable sense of personal safety and security.
So as I followed our dog through the neighbourhood last night, I couldn’t stop thinking how blithely unaware of all of this she was. That she felt as safe and secure on this walk as she has on every other one since we first brought her home. I watched her happily moving from one spot to another, her nose relentlessly sniffing for whatever it is that brings a Schnauzer joy.
Then we came across this tree, and I decided to take it in while her nose did its thing. This single tree, already blazing with colour amid neighbours yet to get the message. Deeply rooted in the earth at the edge of a park where generations of kids and families have played over the decades it’s been here. And like our dog, blithely unaware of the blaring headlines that portend tragedy and instability.
This tree, like our dog, is by design incapable of hatred. Also like our dog, this tree prioritizes life over everything else. The more time I spend on the other end of the dog’s leash, or under the shade of this tree and others like it, I wonder why humanity can’t be more like them. Why we seem driven by what divides us. Why we’re so quick to condemn. To judge. To hate.
24 years after 9/11 and 24 hours after Charlie Kirk, we still haven’t learned. We likely never will. So I’ll be hanging out with the dog under this tree. You’re welcome to join me there.
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