Memoir

Winter Trees Bare All Their Bones

Or The Unraveling

“The Tree Man” 1943 Félix Del Marle Wikiart. Public Domain.

The trees said to the humans, “We have tales to tell.”
The humans said to the trees, “So do we.”

In my early 40s, I felt irreparably broken. My family — my husband and our two kids, aged twelve and 9, were at their wit's end. Mom wouldn’t stop weeping. I was worried for my livelihood as my…