Some trees in the graveyard that were marked for death with the green circle fell in the storm. I woke up thinking about anxiety and an interview, On Anxiety, appeared in The Philosopher.
We can begin by distinguishing anxiety from fear. Fear is said to have a concrete object, while anxiety does not. Anxiety is a sort of formless, anticipatory fear. There are several kinds of anxiety. The first kind, existential anxiety, arises from our existential conditions. The second is a basement-dwelling, ever-present anxiety, which is the fear of death. And the third kind, found in Freudian psychoanalysis, is the fear of the loss of love.
-Samir Chopra
We may be a little anxious about a tree falling on the gravestone we placed, will place. But the tree probably just feels it's time.

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