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Article Excerpt
Last winter in Vancouver we experienced several serious windstorms. We lost thousands of trees in Stanley Park, the backyard of my childhood. Fallen hemlocks, their giant tangles of roots ripped from the ground, exposed to light and scrutiny. Broken cedars, their raw, ragged trunks pointing to the sky. It's hard to find words to express what this looks and feels like. I couldn't find the words, but Philippa Pearce did.
In her masterpiece Tom's Midnight Garden, Tom sees a great firtree fall.
To Tom it seemed that the fir-tree swung more widely each time. "It can't be blown over," thought Tom. "Strong trees are not often blown over."
As if in answer to this, and while the winds still tore, there came the loudest thunder, with a flash of lightning that was not to one side nor even above, but seemed to come down into the garden itself, to...
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