LIFE LESSONS Also, beware the future From the author’s personal files. I ran across this little popcorn tree a few days ago. As strange as this may sound, I miss them. (Yes, I do know that they are an invasive species, but go with me here.) This one is growing in a field next to our apartment complex. For it to be here, there must have been another such tree nearby. Reasonably close anyway. Maybe the wind blew a seed here. Maybe a bird thought that this field needed a new Chinese Tallow tree. Maybe the rain, I don’t know. I miss them because, on our little half-acre lot in southwest Alabama,…