Traust

Wildlife paintings reflecting endurance, courage, and the tenacity of living things.

Traust: a beautiful old word with a range of meanings, essentially fortitude, or trusty, strong and steadfast. (From Old Norse traust - confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode; from Proto-Germanic traustą - trust, shelter; from Proto-Indo-European deru-, dreu-, drū- - to be firm, be solid.)

Gaupens Ferde In the deep winter, a lynx moves through tangled trees towards the light. Quiet courage, broad paws carrying it over the snow. For those who endure their own dark seasons, this is the shape of resolve - to keep going, not fearless, but
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