Anyway, evergreens are my favorite. What a great smell they have! And they are there year-round, so I always have something to look forward to on my walks. Did you know that plants communicate? Yes, they do, with one another mostly, but with animals, too. My evergreens always have some news for me!
So, of course, I love Christmas because we always have had a real evergreen in the house for a few weeks. It's kind of sad because the trees have been cut down and they are dying, but I feel that I provide them with a real service, a kind of hospice care, if you know what I mean.
BUT, something went wrong this year. Frank put up a tree that looked great, but when I went over to smell it and talk to it, NOTHING. It had no smell and had nothing to say. I heard Donna and Frank talking about how much easier it was to have a "fake tree," and I wondered how it could be both a tree and a fake at the same time. Then it hit me! It was a fake but it was not a tree! It was something humans could pretend was a tree.
At first, I was sad that Donna and Frank had interfered with a tradition of having a real tree in the house for a few weeks around Christmas. Then, I had a kind of ethical thing happen: was it better to have a real tree die so I could smell it and communicate with it for a while, or was it better for me to let go of my tradition so a tree could go on living? In the end, it was a no-brainer: let the real trees live!
---Bella
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