Listening to this playlist today.
Here's a track from my previous life in Seattle in the 00s. Members of this band, Gaia Consort, were in my extended friends circle, with a lot of great poly/pagan/hippie music. They used to play house concerts.
This one mourns the loss of the old growth forests.
If you poke around hard enough, you can still find pockets of the old trees not far from Seattle. One was a two-mile trail to the beach on a hill that was too steep to log. (Easy to hike in, but save spoons or you'll never get out!) Right off the edge of a suburb, these trees are too big to wrap your arms around.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SYCHi9ZGDQly6UCvaBvRb
It also makes me think of this place a friend took me to. He was an former forest ranger, and he and his wife still kept the hobby of bushwacking to find places no one had discovered yet.
It was a hard trip for me, because I was even sicker then than I am now. But they took us to a "maple cathedral." It was like an elfin hideaway, with maples taller than you can imagine, a whole grove of them. It's hard to believe my memories of them.
I'll speak of the old ones.
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