“Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things,” from The Overstory, by Richard Powers.
People & their Trees is rooted from my childhood of climbing too high in my front yard’s Magnolia then jumping in its leaves in the fall, sitting alongside a backyard fire underneath our old Dogwood’s stretching branches, using the Cedar on the edge of our yard as second base for a game of whiffle ball when all my brothers were still home, and walking deep into the mix of Walnut, Sycamore, and Oak that make up the forest beyond my backyard.
I believe that people’s memories and experiences don’t live exclusively in their heads — these memories find home in the places or things they love. Each time I came across an interesting tree alongside concrete or gravel roads in Southwest Ohio, a meaningful story was sprouted from an interesting person.
Read the published story in The Athens Post