05-03-2014, 12:52 PM
There were some really nice thoughts in here including the one about how the redwood would speak forever, if it could talk. I would prefer to read this as two separate poems, with one focusing on the the wisdom of the redwood and the other focusing on the family elements. I still enjoyed some of the tree's interaction with the family, such as hearing the hearty laughter, but it was too hard for me to imagine that it could hear the conversations at the dinner table.