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W<\/span>HEN YOU PLANT<\/span> a tree, it is with the expectation that it will grow\r\nBut O! so long from seed to fruit: the tender shoot\r\nThat first sees sun by foot or paw, careless beak, hungry snail,\r\nDays of drought, late spring frost, is vulnerable to the slightest\r\nWhim of chance. Next season, if luck and nurture fare it well,\r\nTaller and just this much stronger it reaches again to heaven.\r\nSpeck by speck, ring by ring, imperceptible except we slow so\r\nMuch to watch, it grows. Ring, love blossoms. Ring, a friend\r\nMeets god. Ring, a child is born. Ring, half-a-thousand meals shared.\r\nRing, holidays and holy days. Ring, a tragedy, its burden shared.\r\nRing, children grow and learn and change and it is hard and it is\r\nGood and they echo in time-lapse another ring, other friends and\r\nLoves and tragedies. Ring, nights up in conversations long and\r\nHard and hopeless and hopeful and painful and beautiful. Ring,\r\nA picnic. Ring, the seashore. Ring, new job. Ring, new service.\r\nRing, recognition and rewards. Ring, loneliness. Ring, illness.\r\nRing, growth. Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring, and still it is but\r\nA sapling. Stronger, sure, but without luck extraordinary and\r\nCareful nurture, threatened by the flashy flowers and verdant\r\nGrass which sprout and drink deeply of the soil\u2019s mead, shoot\r\nUp and blossom in a season then are gone. Threatened, still,\r\nBy storm, by drought, by gardeners\u2019 whips and boys\u2019 pocket knives,\r\nLandscapers\u2019 whims and fire and pest and climate and economy...\r\nYet, given luck and nurture, luck and nurture, luck and nurture:\r\nRing, the planters grow old. Ring, the children grow up. Ring and\r\nRing and ring and ring and ring and the children\u2019s children climb;\r\nBlessed shade and sturdy roots and food and air they breathe\r\nReplenished by the tree in middle age. Now sturdy, tall, it may\r\nWithin its boughs provide the shelter it once required but only\r\nWith luck (ring!) vigilance (ring!) priority (ring!) nurture (ring!)\r\nAnd time and time and time and time and time.\r\n<\/pre>\n
— Ron<\/span>\u00a0– 02 Apr 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WHEN YOU PLANT a tree, it is with the expectation that it will grow But O! so long from seed to fruit: the tender shoot That first sees sun by foot or paw, careless beak, hungry snail, Days of drought, late spring frost, is vulnerable to the slightest Whim of chance. Next season, if luck … Continue reading from seed to fruit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}