Apr23

werifesteria.

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my friend and i set off for a walk in saginaw forest

sadly the tornado had taken down some of the trees

we climbed around and over

made our way through the paths

avoiding the lumberjacks and tree doctors

tending to the wounded and lost

as a bonus we also avoided the wood chipper

where those that could not be saved met their fate

after the forest

breakfast at the Korean cafe

brought a rainbow

 sent through the window

 right into my cup.

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werifesteria – old English – ( verb)

to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery, magic, or whimsy 

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  1. I love the word and when a rainbow joins one at the table. It’s sad about the trees, but hopefully the forest will grow again. There were so many trees destroyed by a tornado in nearby towns several years ago.

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  3. you are always good for a surprise, beth! thank you – the only bother i have is ‘what IS in your cup – apart from the rainbow’…. it looks ‘interesting’.
    after a very rare tornado (called lothar), we once returned to switzerland for a christmas holiday, coming from england, and couldn’t get through at all to meet at my parents. we lost hours trying to navigate some, any way to get there and christmas was nearly over by the time we got home!
    we now eat sometimes in a ‘Bäsebeiz’ (simple eating place with restricted hours, service, basic but ‘down to earth’) built from the felled lumber of ‘Lothar’, it’s called Lothar-Stübli and was 1st meant to be a stable, then a shooting range, but it turned out to be far too beautiful and cosy to be any of these, so it became this ‘resto’.

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    • yes, it does look odd in the photo, but i figured out it was a reflection of the window on the top of my coffee, with the rainbow coming through, and it was in a silver mug – hope that explains it. an unusual combo. wow, that christmas story is wild and glad that turned into a ‘resto.’

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  4. It looks like the tornado did quite some damage! As someone who’s seen one too many horror movies, that photo with the wood chipper made me a feel queasy! 🤣 Korean for a post walk meal sounds lovely. 🌈

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  7. What a lovely old English word, Beth…
    “I’ll leave the way of words to walk the wood, I’ll be the forest’s man, and greet the sun, And feel the silence blossom on my tongue like language.” — Neil Gaiman

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  18. Best to avoid that woodchipper. I’m thinking of the movie “Fargo.”

    I’m sorry about the loss of trees due to the tornado. I have a “tornado tree” near my backyard from a storm several years ago. It’s basically a dead, branchless tree with the marks of being ravaged by a tornado.

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  21. What a cool post. Whenever I see one of those giants toppled I’m flabbergasted at the root ball. (I think that’s what it’s called? I’m neither a garden person or a forester so…) It’s just so stunning to see what was responsible for keeping enormous trees secured so they could soar.

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  28. About three years ago, a huge spruce tree on our neighbor’s property broke off like that. Their home was too far from them to hit their house, but it could have easily hit ours if it had fallen the wrong way, potentially crushing us.

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