Tree Lines - Chapters Twenty-five through Twenty-eight |
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Chapter 25
African Interlude
We made it about half way across and stayed there, stuck, for four hours, as men and women alike tested their strategies and strength and knowledge of mechanical physics to no avail. Twilight and storm clouds began to gather, making it less amusing to be some twenty miles from shelter in territory ruled by major mammals. |
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Chapter 26
Post Parliament
The light never fades but we often move away toward darkness as we learn whatever it is that we have to learn again. But knowing that, it eventually becomes easier to laugh our way home.
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Chapter 27
Other Strands
Pain collapses our focus inward but when we relax, even momentarily, our self- centeredness -- that sense (rarely consciously admitted) that we are the most important elements in this moment – we approach epiphanies that transform who we are. |
Chapter 28
Connections
If a magnificent pine had not fallen in a primordial forest, the eagle’s altered path would not have jarred loose the fragment of the last flower standing even in December in spite of wind and frost. And someone’s deep sorrow would not have been eased by its sweet sad fragrance. |
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