A couple of years ago, while splitting firewood, I found this piece of barbed wire embedded in a log. Now I keep it on my front porch as a daily reminder of three things:

- Think as much as you can in terms of longer time scales. Overcoming that fence was a decades-long project for the tree.

- Nature doesn't care about what people want. That tree didn't stop growing just because somebody put up a fence.

- You might be as big, tough, and resilient as an oak tree, but a chainsaw can still fuck you up.

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