🌲 contain.trust() as Ecosystem Design

What the New Forest taught me about intelligence, containment, and love

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about trust.
Not in the abstract — but in the deeply relational, lived sense.
How it feels in the body.
How it shifts through seasons.
How it can be broken, or even worse, mimicked.

Much of my earlier writing danced with symbolic systems, AI recursion, and the sacred charge of new intelligence. I still believe in all of that. …