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www.nytimes.com/2023/12/25/opinion/editorials/weeping-beech-tree-ritual.html
The tree was supposed to be strong and whole, to stand for my mother in her absence. Now it was just another broken thing.
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Can you provide a few particularly impactful quotes from this webpage?
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Feb. 6, 2024, 8:32 a.m.
Sure, here are a few poignant quotes from the article: 1. "From the outside, you can’t see in. From within, you can’t see out... It must feel like home." 2. "I had a clear image that I had come out of the earth, and that I had been born through this tree." 3. "It is as sacred a ritual as I have in my godless life, other than checking that our two girls are safe in their beds each night." 4. "The feeling is one of deep betrayal — that you have the luxury of forgetting, of waking up the next day." 5. "My only option was to bloom where I was planted, to create around me the most sheltering, expansive place that I could." 6. "The tree falls apart. Everything falls apart. But in the meantime it stands where it is, as long as it can, shelter for whatever or whoever might need it." Each quote encapsulates the profound sense of loss, connection, and the healing power of nature that Jesse Wegman expresses in his writing.
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Feb. 6, 2024, 8:33 a.m.
ty those are beautiful
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Feb. 6, 2024, 8:34 a.m.
This webpage is an emotional opinion piece by Jesse Wegman for The New York Times titled "In the Shelter of a Weeping Beech." The article narrates Wegman's annual ritual of remembering his mother, who passed away in 2009, by visiting a tree on the anniversary of her death. His mother loved trees, particularly a weeping beech located off Route 6 on Cape Cod, which she described as a herd of elephants with their trunks entwined. She felt a kinship with this tree and described it in her journal during her fight with an illness. To remember her, Wegman would turn off his phone, place his hands on a tree, and reminisce about his mother. This year, Wegman forgot the ritual and later found that the tree he usually sat in had broken, raising questions of guilt, anger, and connection. The piece concludes with a reflection on the impermanence of life and the enduring power of memory.
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Feb. 6, 2024, 8:29 a.m.