❄️ TREE 428: Uniquely the same

Throwback Monday – TREE 80

One.

Every snowflake has six sides.
Every fingerprint is parallel curving lines.
Everyone poops.

Everyone is unique. That is true. It is important. It should be celebrated. But it has a dark side. We’re good at zooming in on little differences, magnifying them until it’s all we see – dividing and dividing and dividing again. That person who is so different from you? Their fingertips are covered in parallel curving lines like yours, and, just like you, they use their fingertips to hold the toilet paper and wipe the poo off their bum.

Remember to zoom out until you can see that there’s only one big team called Earth. Until Elon Musk sends a million people to Mars, it’s the only team going. It’s important to celebrate our sameness too.

Two.

I did this on my favourite ever iPhone drawing app. It died a long time ago and there’s never been anything like it since.

Three.

On Friday I heard Cerys Matthews’ Add to Playlist for the first time and was introduced to this bit of downtempo goodness which will ease you gently into the new week.

Just a quick reminder that FFOREST is a bit different this summer. TREE for the rest of July: Monday will be a throwback, Tuesday will be an interesting historical nugget from Valorie Clark. Wednesday and Thursday will be guest posts. FIELD GUIDE will be going out as normal for the rest of July and then taking August off so Skyler can work on gathering new material.

Grow slowly
Jeff