Planting a tree is something special. It is like taking the decision to build a house or finishing the studies at university. It feels exciting.
The new tree is a sweetgum and shall mark the beginning of a new period, hopefully a sweet one.
Our sweetgum will be watching us every day through the kitchen and living room windows. It will be hearing us laughing or crying, joking or shouting.
It will be going with us during happy days and sad moments. It will see the boys getting adults in eight or ten years.
I’d wish to be this tree, seeing everything from a certain distance. It would make things easier.
Yes, I should more often change to be a tree, deep-rooted, and watching from outside.