NON|FICTIONS

essays and explorations

Tag: California

  • The Little Giant Sequoia

    The Little Giant Sequoia

    For my birthday this year, my five-year-old son presented me with a sequoia seedling just four inches high. Sequoia as in, Sequoiadendron giganteum—the Sierra redwood that, given a couple millennia, can grow to be one of the largest living organisms on the planet. It came, this fragile sprout of evergreen, in a clear plastic tube emblazoned…