You Humans Talk a Lot About ‘Mindfulness’

My name is Iroko. I was born in Africa at the turn of the 20th century, yes, I know, that makes me approximately 125 years old, not bad, eh? That's nothing; I have been known to reach 500 years or so. In case you hadn't guessed, I am, or at least I was a tree, a West African hardwood species called Milici, to be more precise, and a mystical one at that.