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November 13, 2008

imitate the trees

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep. Eliot's statement comes back to me these days:
"Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still."
Does anything in nature despair except man? Imitate the trees.
-may sarton
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