Beep@lemmus.orgBanned to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days agoThe Tree on the Corneri.redd.itimagemessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·30 days agoWe had a big tree in the garden that was rotting, so now it’s gone. I did not expect to feel as strongly as I did over it. Seeing the stump is so visceral, representing something that I thought of as effectively permanent being suddenly gone. It shaded the garden and the house, it held a rope swing, so it was a tangible loss, but I think that its size is part of what made it so affecting.
We had a big tree in the garden that was rotting, so now it’s gone. I did not expect to feel as strongly as I did over it.
Seeing the stump is so visceral, representing something that I thought of as effectively permanent being suddenly gone.
It shaded the garden and the house, it held a rope swing, so it was a tangible loss, but I think that its size is part of what made it so affecting.