Mango Tree Mind Scene

A group of friends we get together with on Wednesday evenings heard a Midshipman tell about her trip to Haiti last summer doing a relief project. She mentioned how when her group returned to one of the camps they had been to earlier, how a woman she had worked with was delighted to see her return - not expecting to ever see her again. The

A lone mango tree standing in a field

woman offered her a mango fruit in gratitude, from a tree that was in the camp - from the little she had, she offered all she had to the Midshipman. The image of a mango tree growing in a camp filled with people stuck in my mind. If I was an artist, I would draw a picture of the scene in my head - it would look like something you would see in a Shel Silverstein book - another kind of Giving Tree story, but in real time. A mango tree, surrounded by U.S. AID tents, with people all around, and a woman standing in front of a mango tree, holding a mango fruit in her hand, offering it to the viewer of the scene. (1)

I was surprised when I went to Google and searched for a mango tree image, and then when trying to narrow the search to Haiti mango tree, came on this Website with a song titled MangoTreeForHaiti. No endorsement intended, but it is a nice song produced by folks who seem to want to help.
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(1) Interestingly, Silverstein wrote the lyrics for the song A Boy Named Sue that was made famous by Johnny Cash, sung at San Quentin Prison in California. Looking at the video of the concert performance at the prison, and compared to the video of the last song recorded by Cash before he died is stark - we all age.