The next time you think teaching is unbearable, I encourage you to bring to mind this photo. Yipes! This past Tuesday five loggers (lumberjacks?) were in my backyard removing three trees that had thankfully stayed upright this past winter. I hated to see the trees go and at the same time I’m relieved they’re gone….
What would our world be like without trees? I shudder to even imagine! There’s a good chance we might all be gasping for air! Trees provide us with enormous amounts of oxygen, they absorb carbon, they give us shade, they reduce noise pollution, and the list goes on and on. Why all the tree talk?…
When I have difficulty waking up in the morning, I will usually lay in bed and check out Facebook on my phone. It’s an enormous phone, and its piercing light generally wakes me up a little. Anyhoodle, this morning, one of the first status updates I noticed was a gripe about fall coming. “The earth…
I’d like to offer a long-overdue apology to my friends the trees. I love trees. In my younger days, I will admit to physically hugging them. When I was about seven years old, one of my favorite places to spend hours playing was in the twisted trunk of a fallen, but still-living tree in the…