Unconditional Tree
Jen
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Buying our new home was as exciting as can be, and with that new home came the gift of a tree.
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Memorial/Tribute Tree
October 20, 2018
Buying our new home was as exciting as can be, and with that new home came the gift of a tree.
I AM A MAPLE TREE.
When I was five years old, my grandpa and I got a little twig in a paper cup from McDonald's on Earth Day.
“I think that I shall never see
a poem as lovely as a tree...”
Joyce Kilmer
Last year when I was 8 something horrible happened and my Dad died from cancer. His cancer moved to his liver and then two days later he died. We cried a lot and a lot.
Forty years ago, before we had children, we had a newly planted ash tree. The children came later and grew with the tree.
Buying our new home was as exciting as can be, and with that new Home came the gift of a tree.There was a beautiful weeping willow and oaks that graced the yard, but this tree was different it came
My husband Jay passed away at the young age of 54. He loved nature; and we spent time at The Morton Arboretum, Garfield Park Conservatory, and the Chicago Botanical Gardens.
When my parents were married in 1955, they didn't have a lot of money.
My husband and I live in the house I grew up in. As a child, I remember my dad planting a variety of trees after nearly all our shade trees were lost due to the Dutch Elm Disease in the 1960s.
