<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Air, My&nbsp;Friend]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">Pouring our hearts out, to anyone, or anything that’ll, listen, as we all, need that, trash can, to DUMP everything we’d, carried for the day, in, the column by <em>Jimmi Liao,</em> translated by me…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>After work, he habitually, walked into the park, followed that trail, came to that tree.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Started, pouring his heart out, on what he’d, weathered through at work.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>As the night grew deeper, the sighs from the trees, came in, with the breezes.</em></p>
<p>here&#8217;s the artwork, courtesy of UDN.com<img src="https://pgw.udn.com.tw/gw/photo.php?u=https://uc.udn.com.tw/photo/2020/07/14/realtime/8188991.jpg&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;sw=0&amp;sh=0&amp;sl=W&amp;fw=800&amp;exp=3600&amp;w=930" alt="空氣朋友。（圖／幾米）" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">And so, nature has this way, of helping us heal, like how this person had nobody he could turn to, and had, carried ALL that CRAP from a long, hard day’s work, and went and talked to the trees, and, I’m surely, he felt, a whole lot better, after this, “therapy session” was done.</p>
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