The HeartWork Pulse

The beech trees in the Netherlands are dying. I took this picture last week, during one of the heat waves. On the side facing the road, the bark has burst open and dried out completely. So the tree can no longer carry water up to its crown and branches. That’s the reality now for so many of these majestic giants, all across the country. I live on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, where the beech forests are everywhere. And everywhere I go, I see it: the cracks in the bark, the trees struggling to move that life-giving water up to their limbs […]