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Jo
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they/them Random thoughts from a pretty random person, along with a few things passed along. Lover of commas.
But he had a wife who would sleep with him, so there's that disqualification.
May 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
6/ A forest is not a small thing to restore, a fast thing to restore, or an easy thing to restore. It’s not something that can be put back exactly the same way. Neither is a nation. But don’t let the thought that it will never be the same distract you from the belief that we can make it work again.
February 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
5/ And don’t let the knowledge that so much is being swept away make you give up.
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
4/ Right now our country is all mudflows and cinders as far as the eye can see. It can be hard to catch a glimpse through the falling embers to a time when we might possibly be able to rebuild.

Try to get people out of harm’s way. Fight the fires you can. Grab what you can.
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
3/ They didn’t all agree on what the forest should be, and they didn’t all work together on it, but they worked toward reforestation.

It didn’t happen overnight. It’s not the same forest it was before. But it is a forest. It’s a functional forest. And it continues to grow toward what it can be.
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
2 / After things cooled, dedicated people went in to reforest.

Some did it for money, some did it for love, and it took a whole lot of people working on it. Some did it poorly with swashes of all the same type of tree and some did it with a balance of vegetation.
February 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM