Beautiful piece, man.

… day, your mother passed us by on her way through town, and we asked her from where she was coming. She said she’d saved some seeds from trees she’d cut down for you, and planted them to one day become trees. So we followed her one morning, and sure as day, your mother was right. There are tens of thousands of miles of trees that stretch across the light. She called your ladder “Amazing,” so she named the forest “Amazon.” When we heard about your mother, we all got together and decided the universe is not a place to let…

A Bedtime Story for Those Who Dare to Dream

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John Gorman

Joe Treetop

Aug 13, 2021

Beautiful piece, man.

I particularly enjoyed the part where the mother – who through love for, and belief in her daughter – incidentally became the mother and nomenclator of one of the worlds greatest creations: the mighty Amazon rainforest.

So in a way, she ended up nurturing not only Sisi, but all life through the subsequent process of photosynthesis.

Beautiful

Nature

Storytelling

Written by Joe Treetop

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Ex-hash dealer turned writer and incurable satirist, leveraging a shadowed past of strange encounters and even stranger people to examine self and culture.

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