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Tonight's photo and versions to me are a metaphor for our times in this country right now--with a president who lives in lala land, and tries to get his followers to follow him there...which unfortunately all too many of them do...and who more than on political analyst has described as fascist. To which I agree. We had two candidates who got, respectively, the most votes ever by a winner....and the most votes ever by a loser. We are face two and related crises of the Corona pandemic and the Climate pandemic...both needing decisive action--and as importantly, and here is the metaphor, both needing people wherever they are to buy in the the reality that we are one country, and that to succeed at the deeply serious challenges facing us, we need to see each other as part of a whole---and not as "other". Which, of course, has been the message the last four years. So these trees, at their bases, intertwined, in relationship to each other in their differences...growing on their own...but joined at the roots.....to me a metaphor, maybe more for where we need to be than where we are right now.

So, friends, I have run out of images to show from my most recent walks in the Wissahickon, so this will be (for now) the last of this series, until I walk again there....which as Fall has come and trees have their leaves gone, probably time to do. On to whatever is next...and thank you for allowing me to share these images with you.

Peter

Tags: Trees Roots Philadelphia Landscape and travel Metaphor Wissahickon Fairmont Park

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