Rhys Fraser
@language-tide.bsky.social
…to be in pursuit of something, isn’t that enough, or maybe too much…
Mainly the depth of the roots I think - apparently they regrew v quickly after the blast. Just struck now by how they survived two momentous blasts - the asteroid millions of years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs, and the h-bomb - says a lot for rootedness as the posture of resilience!
November 17, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Mainly the depth of the roots I think - apparently they regrew v quickly after the blast. Just struck now by how they survived two momentous blasts - the asteroid millions of years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs, and the h-bomb - says a lot for rootedness as the posture of resilience!
They are ancient, but have profound recent history as well - ginkgo were among the ‘hibakujumoku’, trees that survived the blast in Hiroshima - a 250 million year old ‘living fossil’ meeting a 9 second reaction of searing destruction warps one’s sense of time and scale…
November 17, 2024 at 12:00 AM
They are ancient, but have profound recent history as well - ginkgo were among the ‘hibakujumoku’, trees that survived the blast in Hiroshima - a 250 million year old ‘living fossil’ meeting a 9 second reaction of searing destruction warps one’s sense of time and scale…
Love these trees! Apparently they drop all their leaves at once, or in “one consent”, as this poem puts it so nicely
November 16, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Love these trees! Apparently they drop all their leaves at once, or in “one consent”, as this poem puts it so nicely