We discovered Mister Rogers as adults after watching artist Paul Zelavanky’s powerful 1-minute excerpts from Mister Rogers’ episodes on his YouTube Channel Mister Rogers for Adults. A favorite: the first extraordinary 25 seconds of Rogers’ interview with Pittsburgh Pirate baseball player Willie Stargell.
It segues with the idea of trees being a verb:
It’s a strategy, a way of being, like swimming or flying, even though to our eyes it’s happening in very slow motion. Tree-ing with no finish in sight…