The Fall Risk

by Abby Jimenez

“Female trees produce fruit. Fruit falls, it makes messes, it attracts vermin. So most trees planted in urban areas are male. They put out pollen with no female trees to absorb it, so it ends up in the air instead.”

“Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.”

“Sometimes the start of something good begins during something bad,” he said. “We don’t get to pick when these things happen.”