"Grandfather of the Forest"

2 February 2022: Listened to this episode of This is Love on my walk this morning and found it quite moving. For over one hundred years, people have tried to save the American Chestnut tree and we keep trying, even if it might never work and if these people will never see their efforts come to fruition. Because it's worth fighting for and worth doing. Phoebe quotes a couple of lines from W.S. Merwin's poem "Place" in the end and it literally almost stopped me in my tracks: " On the last day of the world / I would want to plant a tree." Pushing back against loss...seems like a theme that speaks to me lately.