The American Redwood, a Giant Sequoia.
Over 3000 years old and still going strong.
What this tree must have seen?
Things that are right and things so wrong.

Tongva Indians settling in the Los Angeles basin.
Mexico winning independence from Spain.
California becoming the 31st State.
The San Francisco Earthquake and all that pain.

Hollywood becoming the centre of filmmaking.
Construction of the great Hoover Dam.
Massive migration due to the Dust Bowl.
The Summer of Love when we didn’t give a damn.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.
Man’s first landing on the moon in ’69.
The emergence of Silicon Valley and Apple in ’76.
Trump becoming a convicted felon, and about bloody time.