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hacked tree yearns to grow free

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2025.04.12

A flowering fruit tree blossoms despite being heavily cut back. It occupies a narrow green strip between a road and an irrigation canal. An apartment building looms in the left, making the tree appear to yearn for the open sky between the building and taller trees on the right.

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

—Lao Tsu