East to Eden – Roger Deakin with Robert Macfarlane
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Tree of Grief
There have been times in the years since Roger's death when I've missed him with a burning, cutting want. Through all of that time the Ur apple has got taller, adding growth rings to the invisible year clock it keeps within its trunk. Despite or perhaps because of this easy kinship, there are moments when the Ur apple feels keenly and simply to me like my friend, like Roger. For seven years my ear apple did not even blossom. It leaped gorgeously each spring, but it wouldn't flower. Each April felt a pang of disappointment attending towards reproach at the absence of blossom. Then in the spring of 2015 I published an essay about the afterl
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