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Life lessons we can learn from the trees

Editor’s note: This article was submitted on behalf of Eddy County Community Cares, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to creating awareness about mental health issues.

When I was young, I spent many hours with my friends the trees. I collected seed pods from maples and sycamores, desegmenting them as if I might find the secrets of the universe they held within. I collected the leaves...