Getting Off The Path

Leticia Banegas

People do things to survive and then after they survive they can’t live with what they’ve done.

— Adam Johnson

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Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike…