Meditations in an Emergency

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Trees

Trees

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“Untitled, Olive Trees Outside Jerusalem,” Jossi Stern

That I don’t know what it’s like to be a tree had never quite dawned on me, it was just one of those things I don’t know much about, like art history, Chinese cookery, how it feels to hold a grandchild in your arms for the first time. I don’t mean any of this facetiously. I was at a coffeeshop this w…

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