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I thank you Dr Desmet for helping me keep my sanity during 2020 lockdown. This tree is a perfect reminder - split in two. And although broken, it continues to share its beauty from a different angle.

1. You helped me understand why family and friends complied to the vax jabs, the mask mandates, the forced isolation.

2. The grief of not being with loved ones in their last moment of death still hurts. But your voice of reason helped me harness the rage into 5 years of learning and still learning.

3. Now I'm a different beast. I have spent the time learning legal speak, politician speak, financial literacy speak, media speak - ALL designed to keep me dumb and stupid.

I now have the ability to recognize untruth, half truths, stretched truth and deliberate missed truth. Even figuring out the bias of the exploding AI generated on the internet is guilty, except maybe Grok3.

4. Every waking moment is spent reading WEF, UN, BIS, IMF, WHO, WTO websites, Federal Reserve reports and SEC filings. Following Trump and his team as well as DOGE. Listen to long form podcasts by Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Shawn Ryan, Lex Friedman, Robert Breedlove, Lyn Alden.

5. Not enough hours in the day - but I love the journey and its thanks to you Dr Desmet - I have been able to forgive.

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nduerichen@netidea.com's avatar

Has anyone besides me entertained the idea that relativity theory might be an example of mass formation? It haunts me. If you study the history of the period relativity was developed and consider the unimaginable concepts proposed we might entertain that outlook. I try to explain this somewhat here. https://www.gsjournal.net/Science-Journals/Research%20Papers/View/10143

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R.D's avatar

"Torn open". Wow! perfect description of what happened to us. Out of nowhere, it seemed to us all, "lightning" struck and we were "torn open" and pain and exposure ensued. This poem is so powerful in its few words! "Few twigs where sap still flows" ... precisely! Not many, but few, but through them, blossoms and light are scattered and there is will be a great yield! Beautifully done!

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George P Farrell's avatar

A devastated life, but not lifeless.

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VictorDianne Watson's avatar

Broken but still beautiful!

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Christian Steinberger's avatar

Background builds focus. Background not in full bloom, yet. Repeat your shot in May. And feel the difference. If this enlightened symmetree has not been cut to live on (a pasture) by then.

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Rebecca Novick's avatar

BE that tree

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Debi Grupe's avatar

It’s a fighter!

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Regina Yolanda de Waard's avatar

Schitterend! I see a lot of that in East-Mallorca, where I live: what is left of old almond trees with the weather splitting, twisting and turning it for decades after farmers cutting it back year after year ... until there is only the stem and a few branches, still blooming during the coldest months <3 thank you!

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Vée Ellebée's avatar

Ah, i should be so graceful every time I get hit by lightning!

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Dick Minnis's avatar

Tenacity and stubbornness become virtues at a certain point in life.

Dick Minnis

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Zora's avatar

Life finds a way! 🌻🌷🌿🍃

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Nancy Kane's avatar

This is a beautiful end to a stressful day and a perfect reminder of our strength, courage and resilience. Wishing everyone peace of mind.

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BirdyB's avatar

Thank you! A reminder that we can be 'hit' hard and still have something beautiful within to share with the world...

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Nita Antimonis's avatar

A deep koan. I am momentarily speechless.

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M. D. S.'s avatar

Shocking! But the tree drives on if there be life remaining.

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