Lately I have come to realize that loving the world and appreciating its beauty somehow seems of paramount importance, arguably the most important “thing” you can do. Some day we all will face the big, as a topic usually avoided at all cost, big final moments on earth, and are we prepared for death coming as a lover? Are we prepared to let go?
But I digress, because this post is about these trees.
Final embrace
The parched earth here drank deeply from the waters coming down during this AR (Atmospheric River) Storm during the last 2 days this late October 2021. This uncharacteristically early in the season storm also bent over one of our beloved magnificent and still fully leafed tree, who fell and took with it, almost carefully, a beautiful beloved Juniper evergreen. A lesson in impermanence, again.
On closer look, I can’t help but see the embrace in the encounter of those two trees, who have been standing next to each other for decades now. Knowing that the main body of the tree