White Pine after a lightning strike
Much of nature has a capacity to survive calamities such as injury, or in
this case, a lightning strike. While I do not know a lot about the physiology
of scar tissue co-existing with live tissue, many of us bear some parts
that have been affected by misadventure or accident, and do quite well regardless.
I have seen trees split asunder by lightning, trunks burned and torn in explosive
fashion. Curiously, much of the tree remains alive, thriving in spite of the
charcoal, still a host site for flora and fauna as before.
Misfortune may shape us somewhat, but we hope to have the heart
and will to make out. A lightning-split tree may now escape the logger's saw, and a remain a living monument to perseverance.
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Lightning Pine
acrylic on masonite, 17 x 24 (August 2007)
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