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Advice From A Tree (Original Post) Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2013 OP
Excellent advice Flaxbee Sep 2013 #1
Turn over a new leaf. ... Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2013 #2
I'm so confused now. If you're Galadriel, how can I be Galadriel? Flaxbee Sep 2013 #3
GMTA ... maybe ... Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2013 #5
From Eskimo Blue Day. hobbit709 Sep 2013 #4
The Trees are calling my name, I've got to find out why ... Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2013 #6
Hug a Tree...I did...and asked others to hug it too.... Stuart G Sep 2013 #7

Flaxbee

(13,661 posts)
3. I'm so confused now. If you're Galadriel, how can I be Galadriel?
Sat Sep 21, 2013, 01:45 PM
Sep 2013

And nolabear, too? How many of us are there? Is this the multiverse?

Maybe the trees will know.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
4. From Eskimo Blue Day.
Sat Sep 21, 2013, 01:48 PM
Sep 2013

Water my roots the natural thing
Natural spring to the sea
Sulphur springs make my body float
Like a ship made of logs from a tree
Redwoods talk to me
Say it plainly
The human name
Doesn't mean shit to a tree
Snow called water going violent
Damn the end of the stream
Too much cold in one place breaks
That's why you might know what I mean
Consider how small you are
Compared to your scream
The human dream
Doesn't mean shit to a tree

Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
7. Hug a Tree...I did...and asked others to hug it too....
Sat Sep 21, 2013, 05:41 PM
Sep 2013

It was a beautiful fall day...20 years ago..more or less..2 or 3 years....perfect weather.....so I had this U.S History Class that I was teaching..and I said we are going outside for a short walk..never done before, never since. (I retired many years ago) .So I took them outside...In a park surrounding the school..and I said..today ..if you want, we are going to hug a tree..some of them hugged the tree and some of them thought it was completely crazy..then we came back to the class..and well....continued...About 15 years later I was at a fast food place and this tall strong looking fellow in his late 20s or whatever.., who I didn't know, came up to me and said...are you so and so...and I said yes, you are the teacher who had us hug a tree that day. I said yes, and gradually recalled that person..I wonder ..if anyone else remembers that???..oh well........................... Oh..I forgot...I like trees......

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