Barking up the right tree

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London, ON
March 2021
This photo originally shared on Instagram

I spend entirely too much time walking through forests and staring at trees.

And along the way, I’ve come to notice a few things. Like the way old tree trunks wear the evidence of hard lives lived.

It isn’t something you see as much as feel, a texture that’s been shaped by seen and unseen forces for longer than most of us have been alive.

And it’s glorious. And ever changing. And comforting. And a hushed reminder of life playing out below the radar. Which it wouldn’t be if more of us took the time to walk through forests and stare at trees.

So about that opening line, where I admitted spending too much time in these resonant, vanishing spaces. On second thought, I don’t think I’m spending enough of it.

So in case you’re wondering where I am, now you know.

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