Olive trees, stinky trees, and a world without trees

A Newsletter for the Five Senses

There are spaces like breathes. As with the life of trees, we sometimes feel like eavesdropping and listening to them. —Etel Adnan

At the end of June 2021, my dad died from a furious bout of cancer. He was a kind man with many friends and a smile I’ll never forget. 

After his death, I found myself smack dab in the middle of a global pandemic, living in a …