‘TALL HOUSES’/gunther
April 29, 2019
By Arthur H. Gunther III
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In dense forests, trees grow tall in competition for light. Yet each stands straight and proud, keeping the species together. Though the single tree seeks its majesty, it is also there as a buttress against storms that might take down its neighbor.
Such dense forests are a natural collective in joint security while each tree competes as a rugged individualist.
Tall houses, too, become the neighborhood collective, offering the hum of daily existence while each structure reaches for the sky, a particular color giving the individual due.
Move on to humans, and do we not see both the collective and the rugged individualist reaching high and above?
The writer is a retired newspaperman, ahgunther@yahoo.com