Meditations in an Emergency

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An hour with a tree

An hour with a tree

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Apr 08, 2023
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“Tree Man” (ca. 1500), Hieronymus Bosch

The closer I watched the tree, the more I saw how it never stopped moving, how it was vibrating constantly.

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