We can learn much from a tree. Colorful.  Spectacular.  Beautiful. Standing, being who they are meant to be. That said, in a few weeks they will experience loss. Bare.  Exposed.  Vulnerable. Enduring change after change after change. Nevertheless, there they remain.  Bold.  Present.  Living. Standing, being who they are meant to be. “In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” -St. John Henry Newman