new shoots from a dead tree

from Plant Metaphor Assemblage new shoots from a dead tree

new discovery

• New thoughts can sprout from fuzzy metaphors, such as the difference between “denying the air as good” and “not reading the air,” or a sprout from a dead tree.

• Can we cut this out?” I was looking at it and thinking, “What is it? “Isn’t this what it looks like?” and a new thought sprouted.

  • Example: "denying air as good" is not the same as not reading the air`.
    • dead tree I thought it was sprouting

• Newborn metaphors are fuzzy and grow after the fact.

  • The process of waiting for branches to grow and fruit to enlarge

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