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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 79 excerpt)

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Story 79 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Our cottage is on a small lake on the Canadian Shield. Our

shoreline is very rocky, with large boulders deposited there
as the glaciers retreated 10,000 years ago. Amazingly this
shoreline provides sufficient sustenance for trees to grow and,
in their own way, thrive. They protrude out perpendicularly
from crevices between the rocks before turning upwards to
catch a modicum of sunlight and spread their gnarly majesty....

narrated by Ian McCrorie

2023
2 minutes 58 seconds

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