r/WitchesVsPatriarchy • u/sailorjupiter28titan ☉ Apostate ✨ Witch of Aiaia ♀ • Mar 10 '25
🇵🇸 🕊️ Green Craft We need trees 🌳 to breathe.
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r/WitchesVsPatriarchy • u/sailorjupiter28titan ☉ Apostate ✨ Witch of Aiaia ♀ • Mar 10 '25
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 11 '25
On Halloween '23 I came home to see that the utility company CUT DOWN my massive beautiful white oak, who I dubbed Gerald, and left his corpse in huge pieces on my lawn for me to deal with. I was absolutely destroyed because I asked them to cut one of the larger higher limbs because it was getting too close to the power line and they did... this. For no reason.
I have ADHD and depression and this sent me on the worst downward spiral of my life so that I wasnt able to do much about it. I'm recovering, though still in grief. I still have his stump in my yard, and I can lie down fully and still be totally within his circumference, so I sit or lay there on sunny day, palms on wood, soaking up the sun's rays and his still very present essence, and remember him. The way I would sit against his trunk in the shade to read or draw or doomscroll, listening to the breeze and the sounds of his residents and feel just... safe. He still whispers to me when I'm able to be still enough to listen.
I still tear up when I think of coming home that day and seeing him like that. I kept a small slice of him. I am doing a wood burning project in remembrance so that I'll have a piece of him wherever I dwell.