THE GIVING TREE

if you have never read this book, i command you to stop what your doing right now (at least after you finish reading this entry...and maybe after the poems that appear after this one...) and go out and purchase it right away!

it's an amazing little story of the relationship between a boy and a tree, and of just how we never really appreciate or know what we have until it's all gone. the little boy took and took from the tree to benefit his own needs, until the tree had nothing left to give him. and it wasn't until the boy was too old to do anything about it, that he finally realized how much he had taken his tree for granted.

it's an amazing tale that really (no matter how old you are) will touch your soul, and force you to think about how materialistic we can be.

there are important things in life, and there are things we can truly live without...never lose sight of the things that matter most, because it's easy to allow ourselves to become allured into always wanting more.