The Light Through the Leaves

by Glendy Vanderah

“People who love each other can stay together in other ways. In their hearts.”

“Trees can do this amazing thing called Compartmentalization of Decay. When they get an injury, the cells around the wound change and put up a wall that contains the process of decay. Around that wall, a different kind of change in the cells forms another wall. Then a third wall. And a fourth.”