Tree of Life
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When I was a kid in school, we studied trees. We talked about coniferous trees and deciduous trees (I was oh so grateful later that year when I was in the county spelling bee and the final word they gave me — the winning word — was deciduous). We talked about things like xylem and phloem and root systems and plant cells and photosynthesis. We talked about tree rings and tree growth and trees trees trees. Like everyone else in my class, I spent weeks finding trees, plucking leaves, cataloging them and putting them into a book to be turned in for a grade (the biggest grade of the whole marking period). For awhile there, when I was a kid on the cusp of becoming a teenager, trees were my life (among the other things, like getting my braces tightened and who said what to whom and ohmygodheissocute, that is). Yes, it was mostly all trees, all the time. But in all of that tree talk, we never once discussed the evidence that some trees are obviously dancers, and oh, how I wish we had.
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