It is over two decades old and has survived many situations, including being hit and almost destroyed by an errant motorist and by a very drunk man who thought it needed pruning with an axe.
It is not our ‘white magnolia tree’, but it has the same endurance. It is ‘representative’ of my 1000 days of daily blogging.
EDUCATION, A LIFE FORCE 
It’s beautiful! Congrats on your milestone of 1000 days blogging! Linda 🙂
Thank you, Linda. I suppose as a very old man I have time to do things I did not even know about – blogging – when I was younger. That said, I think that online communication in all its parts has been a lot more damaging and destructive than constructive and beneficial. I often think back to the days of yore, when people were focussed on the primary literacy and communications skills – and how our departure from those precepts, priorities and values has left us poorer for their loss.
For me it’s a double edged sword – blogging, and the people I get to talk to who understand what it’s like to live with chronic pain have truly saved me – so I’m all for digital communication, BUT, as the daughter of an English teacher (and the mother of two teens), I can see what it has cost us in terms of grammar and punctuation, courtesy and creativity … life has been reduced to lazy language and click bait which is a real shame.