Shade is My Refuge

IF TREES are powerful agents in a more than human world, then what are their powers? How do we depend upon them? How do they act upon, and with us? What can we change, or affect, when we collaborate with trees? Certainly, their powers are many. And a particular tree, in a particular time and space, will always have its own particular powers. But there are also powers that we might associate, as if by force or impulse, with the form of a tree. Great among those powers, I would suggest, is the power of making shade.