WHAT I TREASURE

Living in a tree by Ingeborg Swart

That’s right, I treasure living in a tree. It might sound strange, I realise that. However, I live in a second-floor flat with an ancient oak right on the corner of the house. House and tree have been here, side by side, for well over a century. No one really knows how old the tree is, but it was already there when builders started on the house at the beginning of the 1900s. It was still rather young and flexible back then, so it easily welcomed the new structure into its orbit. It bent and adjusted itself to make room, and to find the space to grow big and strong and wise. Which means that some hundred years later, the solid, strong branches of the oak reach around two full sides…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2019

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