The Seed, Part 1

When my kids ask about death — and Ben and Addie did, yesterday morning...about the afterlife, too, and heaven...I simply say: "I don't know."

Yesterday, I said, "I think something unexpected is going to happen, but it's hard for me to imagine. If you were a seed, do you think you would believe that could become a tree?"

We have joked about this before. I…