Thanks to a wonderful high school classmate in my hometown of Brush, I had a small intimate reunion of a few of my high school chums. The meeting was just so great – – especially since I was unable to attend of the previous reunions that had been held. The one topic that struck me so intently was the rumination on all of our peers that had passed since graduation – some just a month or so after graduation – some as recent as just a few months ago. At the most recent reunion, a well-meaning classmate created a “memorial tree” to honor all of them. I was flabbergasted. I never knew there was so many. Nothing hit at my mortality fears then hearing about my peers. It really hit home. But a TREE?? Really? When was it a “memorial sapling”? How did the tree get so big?