Time is never wasted...

This is hanging in the 100-year-old house where I'm listening to the trees (and also many family members) this weekend.

Good advice, well taken:

Time is never wasted, listening to the trees; If to heaven as grandly we arose as these. Holding to each other half the kindly grace, Haply we were worthier of our human place.
(from a poem by Lucy Larcom)