A magnificent tree, estimated to be one thousand years old, grows on Johns Island, South Carolina. The Angel Oak is truly awe inspiring, having a trunk of enormous girth with furrowed bark and great limbs that reach down to enter the earth and rise up again. The grand oak draws countless visitors each year down a dusty dirt road to its home nestled among trees that are a tiny fraction of its age. If estimates are correct, the Angel Oak was beginning its life before the Crusades, before the Aztec and Inca civilizations existed and before the Vikings came to North America. It has endured earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, disease and escaped the axe. Over the decades it has enthralled all who have stood beneath its enormous canopy. This weekend we took my friend Bridget de Socio to Angel Oak. Seeing the tree she told my daughter Livia, “This tree wanted to be a tree more than any other”.
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