I am thankful for my family, thankful for everything life does for me, and thankful for this beautiful tree shining light on me.

I wish to see more evergreen trees throughout the year.  Given all the hard work, hot humid weather, bugs and physical pain I endured while planting, fertilizing, shearing, shaping and selling evergreen trees during my first job in high school, one might think I would prefer to see fewer of them.  Even so, I love to see them, wherever they grow.

I would be very happy to see evergreen trees atop places of worship, attached to necklaces worn by athletes, musicians and people on the train, on large advertisements along the side of the highway, and just about everywhere else that I currently see representations of an instrument of torture, which had once come from a beautiful living tree that cleaned the air we breathe and reminds us how spirits endure with the human family.

I will settle for seeing them in the forest, the mountains and the annual living room for now, but one may dream that humanity will eventually embrace the more uplifting theme