A close-up view looking from the ground up & in slightly foreshortened positioning at an enormous, thick tree trunk that was uprooted and split apart by heavy lightning. The dry bark is heavily textured, knobby, gnarled, and a dark, dusty brown in colour. The exposed inner wood is a honeycomb yellow orange in colour; the shredded wood fills up much of the bottom third of the screen. In the background, the green leafy tops of a tree are visible against a grey sky filled with storm clouds.

"Experience is as to intensity & not as to duration." Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

A fav. quote since age 15 re trauma & abuse. +Fair summation of my life.

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