{"id":286,"date":"2004-10-19T02:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2004-10-19T02:41:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T02:41:00","slug":"286","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

A Forest God<\/strong><\/p>\n

This has turned into a weekend of car repair and grading student writing. But last Friday M. and I did manage to fit in a short cross-country ramble in the Wets. In some shadowed ravine I bumped into that forest god again.<\/p>\n

Or, to use technical language, it is a sort of “irruption of the numenous.” <\/p>\n

You’re walking through the woods, and there, in a tiny clearing, you see a man-high young fir tree, all perky and perfect, every needle sharp, blue-green in the sun. <\/p>\n

On its needles has fallen a shower of golden coins–the golden, rounded leaves of aspen trees. The little fir seems to have its “hands” out snatching leaves from the shower of gold.<\/p>\n

It is full of shining power–and it’s just a fir tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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