You Too Can Become an Artist of the Beautiful

Down here in time, where beauty grows

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In her essay Sojourner, Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard discusses how a mangrove tree floating in the middle of the salty ocean must create its own freshwater ecosystem if it is to survive.

She writes, “If survival is an art, then mangroves are artists of the beautiful: not only that…