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Who can resist a solitary tree at the top of a hill???

(I think this might have been a wee bit inspired by Six Feet Under…)

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Have to be stronger when you stand alone but what a view 🙂

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Happy Daze

19/10/2012 at 3:12 am

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- You’re right! It occurs to me, this might also have been inspired by Scarlett O’Hara vowing that she and her family will survive just before the intermission of Gone With the Wind…
  
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  Titirangi Storyteller
  
  19/10/2012 at 9:37 am
  
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You know how you’re an island? I’m a tree.

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poietes

21/10/2012 at 5:26 am

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- But what kind of tree??? There are so so very many…
  For years I felt I was a tree – but a tree on a barge or other large flat boat, filled with soil and all the other things a tree needs to live. But nonetheless a tree at sea, which is entirely unnatural for a tree to be, no matter how healthy it appears to be. A tree is meant to set its roots deep into the soil (well, not if you are a palm tree…)… I guess my barge found a harbour – and I became an island…
  (Have you read Life of Pi? I found that book so utterly charming and close to my heart – I wished I had written half of it and maybe could have. I hear they have made a movie out of it – not sure I want to see it.)
  
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  21/10/2012 at 9:56 am
  
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  - I loved that book, and I agree, not sure how the movie could possibly captures the book’s essence.
    
    Kind of tree? Probably a weeping willow, on an island, in the middle of the ocean. I know. Totally improbable and impossible.
    
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    22/10/2012 at 6:54 am

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