Takeaways:

1. Evergreen trees symbolize more than just Christmas; they represent life during the harsh winter months.
2. These trees remind us that even in the darkest times, life continues to persist and thrive.
3. Bringing evergreen trees indoors during winter is a way to defy the dying nature outside.
4. The green of the evergreen is a powerful reminder that we, too, can persist through difficult seasons.

Links referenced in this episode:

1. jamesabrown.net

This is the Daily note from jamesabrown.net I just learned something fascinating about evergreen trees.

They're a symbol of Christmas, of course, but that's only part of it.

For cultures across ages, these trees represent life persisting through winter.

And who doesn't heed that?

I certainly do.

This time of year, I mourn the lack of sun, the long creeping dark.

As an old friend put it, we bring these trees inside when everything outside is dying to see the green, when the world is brown.

This decoration in defiance.

It's proof that life continues when the winter slows everything down.

The tree isn't the point.

The green is we persist.

And that, my friends, is worth celebrating.

On that note, I'm James A.

Brown, and as always, be well.