Category: Mortals
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Rooted Wolves
In younger maturity this old maple tree, well over a metre across, was clearly an excellent climbing tree, even for the likes of humans, with many stout branches spreading wide. That’s how trees grow when the land around them is cleared. With a narrower crown still showing vigour above many of its no-longer-young offspring, this…
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The Telephone Game
Broken Telephone Pictionary is a hoot of a party game. The way I learned it, strict rules say that each of 5 to 8 people around a table draw a thumb-sized picture at the top of a sheet of paper of something they can see from where they are sitting, to start. Less strict, just…
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PSA: Resourcing For Health Before Viruses Come Around
Viruses don’t just mess with the integrity of a body, they weaken people. Can their spread be contained? Sometimes. Is there a role for vaccines? Yes, but they can’t do it all. Can people protect their baseline health so that that viruses don’t do as much damage? Definitely. And some of that is very straightforward,…
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Leaves Astream
Leaves aren’t aquatic, but at the turn of the season, they begin to fall more than occasionally, and some of them get snagged in the river for a while. Many moods.
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Culmination
This is what the blossoms were about all along.
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Once And Future Soil
Storms take some leaves before trees were done with them for the season. In a late summer out of time, too late to be so like spring, too warm to yet be autumn, this leaf got an early start returning to dirt.
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Editionitiation 0.0.1
A storm will fell this tree, most likely, but with living tissue killed, a space in the woods is already opened up because with limbs bare of leaves, with canopy defunct, light enough for new growth reaches the soil.
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Clement
Near the Great Lakes we get all the weathers, in short spates. Deep freezes, hurricane remnants, droughts, day-long downpours, tornadoes, swelters, ice storms, fog, wind storms, and pleasant days. Most years, most of those. Odd then that for a month now in the middle of the summer we have weeks now of clement weather when…
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Only To Burst Forth
Deciduous trees focus so much attention on a full culmination of their growing tips into well-sealed buds to protect their strength and tenderness from the worst of winter. Then when the sun and warmth return, the bursting is something to behold.