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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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No matter how cynical you get, you can never keep up.

—-Lily Tomlin