the unbearable

must still be carried

It’s not true that the snow colludes with the branch, to give it only what it can bear. The snow will fall at will. Heavy and wet or light and dry. It will do as it does. The tree can only stand and hold what falls. It will take the weight on its branches or it will not. The snow will snap the weak and the brittle. It’s just how it is.

I’m marvelling at …