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Dear #Positivity Friends,
Fall is here! If you live in a place where the leaves on the trees brilliantly change color then flutter to the ground in a steady whisper for the next two months, well, lucky you. But if you’re among the countless people who live on any Oak Street in America, you better look out!
This is one of those years—known as a “mast year”—when certain trees produce an overabundance of fruits and nuts. The most prolific of these trees is the mighty oak, which explains the crazy storm of acorns pounding down on rooftops and sidewalks from coast to coast right now.
There are plenty of animals who partake of this bounty—deer, chipmunks, blue jays, and turkeys, to name a few. But squirrels are the oak tree’s #1 customer every autumn. They immediately scarf up most of the protein-rich white oak acorns they find, then bury a heap of red oak acorns to hold them over during the winter.
During a mast year, an oak tree produces more acorns than even the most industrious squirrel could possibly pack away for the cold season. Some of those unconsumed acorns germinate, become saplings, and grow into the oak trees of the future. In other words, the acorns annoying you today will provide the shade you’re begging for on a hot summer day a decade or two from now. Once again, the natural world chuckles to itself and says, “You’re welcome!”
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With hope and positivity,
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