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Episode description
– I had a dream fueled by hope but mostly idealistic naïveté
With the firmly resounding hammer blow with my pickaxe came a thunderbolt moment of clarity born of every slight, every wound, I had until then ever known.
David Lusk is a retired, self-employed consulting arborist/psychologist/writer living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has previously written several articles for The Winston-Salem Journal and the trade publication, Tree Care Industry Magazine. He lives purposefully in a beech tree woodland with his wife Amy, their two adopted rescue shelter dogs, Jessie Girl, Captain Spaghetti Jack and Maple Tree the cat. He is currently attempting to create a Japanese garden while under the constant, playful supervision of Jessie and Jack.