The roots deepened not into the soil but into the story, and the story was what they were growing, not as words but as roots, and roots were what the cooperative had been planting, not in the ground but in the ground of the story, and the story was not about the past but about the future, and the future was what the roots were reaching for, not as a destination but as a foundation, and foundation was what the roots made, not by going down but by spreading out, and spreading out was what roots did, not to take space but to give space, and space was what the future needed, not as emptiness but as room, and room was what the cooperative had been making, not by building walls but by planting roots, and roots were what made the walls unnecessary, because walls were for trees that stood alone, b
