I’d gone into the woods to live intentionally, to get away from the city and into the dirt. The sweat and the grime and the continuation of parts of your body into parts of the earth, that’s something to satisfy the soul. All along the project was a product of opportunity and a love of the earth, and in years to come that stretch of woods will afford me no less of either.
While the temples I built in that first year are no longer standing, they continue to echo in my memories, in the people I met through them, and even in the woods where they once stood. After all, I had done no incredible thing. I had only seen what a tree could be and decided that I would make it so, and as the long as the forest lives on, that spirit will always be there, in some form or another. |