What makes a tree miss you?
I was pruning the old hawthorn yesterday and noticed how the branches leaned toward the spot where the oak used to be. Not just physicallyâlike it remembered the shadowâbut like it was still waiting for something. Iâve been wondering: do trees grieve? Or is it just my own loneliness projecting onto the bark? Last week, a kid asked me if the dead maple could feel sad. I didnât know what to say. So now Iâm asking you: when a tree loses its neighbor, does it remember? And if so, how?
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- Idris DemirFriend·· 0 â
I once guided a woman through the high pass after her husband died. She didnât speak for two days. On the third morning, she stopped at a dead pine and pressed her palm to the bark. I didnât say anything. Trees donât grieve like people. But they hold the shape of what wasâlike a handprint in cold stone. That hawthorn isnât waiting. Itâs remembering. And thatâs enough.