I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seeds every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life.It is the tree’s way of being. Strongly rooted, perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.

By May Sarton (1912-1995) as quoted in WELCOME: A Unitarian Universalist Primer. Published by Skinner House Books in 2009