It is lonesome, yes. For we are the last of the loud.
— Gwendolyn Brooks, “Second Sermon on the Warpland”
Trees carry the earth’s wisdom though so few of us ever stop to inhale. So this, a new urgency, I give you: Listen! Breathe! & do not take from trees, that which you do not intend to replant. Before an American flag, t…
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