This book is an effort to uplift any hopeless despairing humans who are dealing with what seems to be, or may be, the end; and show them that adjusting, enduring, conforming, and conquering their conditions and grief is a VICTORY, of sorts, and nature stands to confirm it. This 27 year Army veteran was 79 years old, successful, and secure, and had it all, and lost everything in a flood. All he saw left was to go to his grave in Arlington and join his wife, who was dying of Alzheimer's, and whom he did not want to live without. After moving to the old family farm home, he found that the trees, on the land he owned, had suffered far more that he had / was. Many had died, fighting to the end, with glory, but some had quit and given up and left nothing but a disparaging mess for the universe to see and distain.