The heartwood compresses to form a solid mass,\u00a0
densely packed layers become the core of being.
Technically
the heartwood is dead,\u00a0
but does not atrophy or decay\u00a0
[unless the outer layers
become jeopardized],
the core provides
balance, stability, and security,
self-insulating,\u00a0\u00a0
simultaneously\u00a0
protected
and expanding,
as sacrificial\u00a0outer layers,
supply life and growth,
surrounded by an exterior
of dead, hardened\u00a0flesh;
the reality
of one’s constant exposure
to an unforgiving world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A core of sustained non-life,
an exterior of protective death,
and somewhere in-between,
a balance of
life, expansion,
sacrifice, sustenance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The heartwood compresses to form a solid mass,\u00a0densely packed layers become the core of being.Technicallythe heartwood is dead,\u00a0but does not atrophy or decay\u00a0[unless the outer layers become jeopardized],the core providesbalance, stability, and security,self-insulating,\u00a0\u00a0simultaneously\u00a0protected and expanding,as sacrificial\u00a0outer layers,supply life and growth,surrounded by an exteriorof dead, hardened\u00a0flesh;the reality of one’s constant exposureto an unforgiving world. A core … Continue reading “Heartwood”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/watchyourhead.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/watchyourhead.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/watchyourhead.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/watchyourhead.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/watchyourhead.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/watchyourhead.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"http:\/\/watchyourhead.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/watchyourhead.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/watchyourhead.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/watchyourhead.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}