1) The author recalls spending summer days as a shy pre-adolescent reading in a tree outside her grandparents' house in Indiana, feeling the gentle breeze through the leaves.
2) She would climb the tree, which had conveniently positioned branches, to sit on a comfortable thick branch, lean against the trunk, and get lost in magazines and fiction while feeling the breeze.
3) Although the tree she used to read in is still there, the particular branch she sat on has been cut off. However, the author has been able to recapture the essence of those moments reading in different places over time.