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Welcome to Your Daily Dot where Dot will share tips, advice, and stories on how we can make our world better. |
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All Dear Dot illustrations by Elissa Turnbull. |
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Dear Reader,
On a walk recently, Dot came across a massive tree stump that seemed to have been formed by the bonding together of several mature trees. I can scarcely imagine the agony of whomever had to cut this treasure down. I suspect tears were shed. But it reminded me of this In A Word, defining “inosculate,” which is “to join” or “unite” something, including tree trunks.
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The brilliant Suzanne Simard tells us that forests are social, connected via underground networks of entangled roots and rhizomes that transfer nutrients and protection from one tree to another, based on need, based on mutual flourishing, to use Robin Wall Kimmerer’s phrase (“All flourishing is mutual,” says the author of Braiding Sweetgrass).
We are all connected, of course. Or rather, “inosculated.”
Unitedly,
Dot
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