I spent last week at Edisto Island, South Carolina. I own a timeshare that has seen embarrassingly little use during the years that I’ve owned it and I decided it was high time that I got better value from my investment. So I chose a place I’d never been before, coastal South Carolina, to spend a week exploring, sightseeing and learning. From the balcony of my condo I had a gorgeous panoramic view of the golf course, swimming pool and a nearby pond. Immediately outside the balcony was a spectacular, ancient shade tree, pruned and molded to fill the space between the buildings. It had gnarly bark and from one basic trunk, it wound and twisted it’s way up to higher than the three stories of the adjacent buildings. As I sat on the balcony enjoying
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