Still thinking about the thousand year old tree. That tree was five hundred years old when Columbus stumbled into America. Twenty-five generations. It’s like it was always there already, and now it’s been there for another five hundred years after that. What was even here a thousand years ago? Home to the Karankawa Indians. A small but thriving population. The first Europeans (Spaniards) landed here in the fifteen hundreds. Human populations came and went. The tree was just always there.
How many hurricanes didn’t blow the tree down? How many fires missed it? I wonder how many big old trees had already been there for five hundred years when this one sprouted and now the trees that were old then are gone.
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