Burghers of Calais

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I have found reverie in the natural environment. Specifically,  the Epicenter Coastline of California,I am sure it is the “wild, windblown, survival” of it's landscape  which gives me hope, that allows me a safe haven. This natural environment is our home. The pace of it is slow, enduring, allowing space for vulnerability. Vulnerability and the intimacy created by this grace of space is the human condition. The trees that weather 

the coast's elements become signatures of what they have thrived through. The strains of this harsh environ prove to be the strength we feel as we hike thru their boughs. How reassuring they they have lived many more years than we have. Now, they are whisphering that they might be beginning to feel the climates extremes as deadly.  As the Burghers of Calais, who will be spared?