{"id":595,"date":"2012-08-23T23:10:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T06:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/?p=595"},"modified":"2012-08-24T00:24:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T07:24:37","slug":"tree-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/tree-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted by <a title=\"Linda Buzzell-Salzman\" href=\"http:\/\/thoughtoffering.blogs.com\/ecotherapy\/2000\/11\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Buzzell-Salzman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/two-trees.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-596 aligncenter\" title=\"two trees\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/two-trees.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/two-trees.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/two-trees-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/two-trees-75x75.jpeg 75w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/two-trees-210x210.jpeg 210w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/two-trees-135x135.jpeg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tree Marriage<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>by William Meredith<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Chota Nagpur and Bengal<br \/>\nthe betrothed are tied with threads to<br \/>\nmango trees, they marry the trees<br \/>\nas well as one another, and<br \/>\nthe two trees marry each other.<\/p>\n<p>Could we do that some time with oaks<br \/>\nor beeches? This gossamer we<br \/>\nhold each other with, this web<br \/>\nof love and habit is not enough.<br \/>\nIn mistrust of heavier ties,<\/p>\n<p>I would like tree-siblings for us,<br \/>\nstanding together somewhere, two<br \/>\ntrees married with us, lightly, their<br \/>\nfingers barely touching in sleep,<br \/>\nour threads invisible but holding.<\/p>\n<p>from <em>Effort at Speech<\/em>. \u00a9 Northwestern University Press, 1997<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Linda Buzzell-Salzman Tree Marriage by William Meredith In Chota Nagpur and Bengal the betrothed are tied &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/tree-marriage\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[243,241,89,242],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-and-prose","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-trees","tag-web"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4azYr-9B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}