Attribution: Андрей Романенко, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, in utilizing trees for territorial marking purposes, recognizes their importance in meaningful communication. It is therefore easy for him to understand just how upset the keeper and Phyllis are over the news of a hundred or so 60-year-old cherry trees on a public golf course in Washington being cut down at the behest of the golfing POTUS. The trees were a gift from Japan to symbolize friendship and were part of the spectacular annual DC cherry blossom show in March and April.
Compared to some of the disastrous acts of the Capital gang-that- can’t-shoot-straight–those acts involving death and destruction for millions and a world on the edge of oblivion, perhaps cutting down some trees is not worthy of major indignation.
But the keeper once authored a book entitled “TREESON, An Apologia to Trees,” specifically those trees used to make the paper that carried his 35 years of newspaper rambling. He and Phyllis find the company of trees special in many ways, and the image of those cherry tree stumps moves them to yet another marker of the prevailing White House cruel insanity.
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