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Scenario

How families navigate inherited responsibility for meaningful trees

My family has this huge maple that my dad planted when I was born, and now that he's gone my siblings and I can't agree on how to care for it — my brother wants to hire professionals, my sister thinks we should learn to do it ourselves like dad did, and I just feel guilty every time I look at it. We used to all gather under that tree for everything and now we can't even have a conversation about pruning schedules.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tree carries the weight of memory and obligation in ways that make practical decisions feel impossibly loaded.

Your guide for this
Nas
Nas works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Trees — what we owe them?”

Peri

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