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The next edition of \u201cThe Sacred in Suburbia,\u201d my monthly column for No Unsacred Place, is now up.\u00a0 It\u2019s titled \u201cTree Communion\u201d and it talks about how communing with the trees nearest to us can help us form and maintain connections with Nature and the Spirits of Nature.\u00a0 I hope you\u2019ll check it out, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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