May 2021 Book, The Overstory
Book discussion: May 19 at 6:30. Talk About Books meets every third Wednesday of the month at 6:30. "Trees do most of the things you do, just more slowly. They compete for their livelihoods and take care of their families, sometimes making huge sacrifices for their children. They breathe, eat and have sex. They give gifts, communicate, learn, remember and record the important events of their lives. With relatives and non-kin alike they cooperate, forming neighborhood watch committees — to name one example — with rapid response networks to alert others to a threatening intruder. With a life span of hundreds or thousands of years, time must surely have a different feel about it. And for all that, trees are things to us, good for tables, floors and ceiling beams: As much as we might admire them, we’re still happy to