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This page turns wood into a moral standard of endurance, steadiness, and plain strength.

The language is simple, but it carries a code. To be wood here is to stand after impact and not betray your word.

Where Life Is Wood, draft two. Sleep has not been sure for years, like any tree, thinking about yourself is the very last of your concern. If you can say you have never been knocked down or gone back on your word, then you are wood. A credo poem.