If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

It was better today. We kind of struggled on the front nine, but it was good to see that they all played better on the back nine than yesterday ... We finally started to make some putts. I think we got a little more comfortable on the greens.

We didn't have our best round today. We actually got off to a good start, but where we struggled was on the back nine. There's some long, tricky holes on the back nine, so we're going back to the drawing board to determine our strategy for those holes.

In general, what you start working with today is a nice and finished looking tree within two years.

I was hanging onto that tree and I prayed. Dude, I prayed so good I thought I might become a preacher.

To rise above tree line is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into birdsong, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.