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How An Apple Tree Transformed My Life

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.

- Herman Hesse -

How An Apple Tree Transformed My Life

"I was in between creative projects and feeling the need to do something more dynamic with my energy than sitting at the computer sending and receiving emails, so I followed an impulse to a local biodynamic farm and got a job picking apples during the last six weeks of harvest. The notion was quite romantic initially...I'd spend my days wandering the orchard rows connecting with my Muse, and my evenings writing to my heart's content. The first few days were pretty exciting --driving tractors, climbing trees, embracing the daily challenge of filling three big apple crates with 2,000 apples each before sunset. But by day four...I'm pretty sure I hated it." Over the following days and weeks Chip Richards would experience a series of quiet transformations... { read more }

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