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Default ODE To A TREE (Arbor Day!)

"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Steve 'Cannabis Oil' Wertz" wrote in message
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> Ophelia wrote:
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>> "Steve 'Cannabis Oil' Wertz" wrote in message
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>> Everyone, let us all put aside this squalid bickering that has infested
>> this
>> froup as of late...all this fighting is childish and energy - wasting...
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>> It is ARBOR DAY, when we honor our FRIENDS the TREES...they never argue
>> or
>> fight or war with each other, they are stolid and stalwart and
>> upright...they ask for NOTHING...could anything be more BLESSED than to
>> be a
>> TREE...a grand SEQUOIA...a hardy OAK...a loverly GINKGO...a APPLE, PEACH,
>> or
>> CHERRY tree...???
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>> Remember, kids, it takes JUST as much energy to be HAPPY as it does to be
>> negative...happiness ALWAYS yields better results...on yer tombstone do
>> you
>> want inscribed, "I Died Old, Bitter, and Stupid", or "I Died HAPPY :-)
>> "...so go out and say THANK YOU to a TREE today...!!!
>>
>> Anyways, here is a lil' tribute to our friends the trees:
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>> "I am a large PLANT that can make all yer dreams come true.....I can be
>> the
>> Grand Piano in yer living room......I am the House that you live
>> in........I
>> am the handle on yer Broom and the Guitar you love to play.......I am the
>> Paper you read or write on and I can provide your Kids a College
>> Education
>> or buy you a new Car......I can be made into Gasoline or be simple
>> Firewood
>> for a pleasant Family Evening.....I can be farmed like Wheat or
>> Corn.......If you cut me down and use me, another Tree will grow in a
>> short
>> time to take my place.....I am one of the Resources that Man has
>> available
>> for him to use and I will be around FOREVER because Man has a LOT of uses
>> for me......"
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>> Best
>> Greg
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>> Very nice) As for negative or nastiness against me, I ignore it)
>> Actually it makes me laugh at the pathetic attempts to upset me lol Big
>> Fail) Just Feeble <g>
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>> Trees are much nicer than many people I love them all)

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> Indeed, Ms. O...!!!
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> This weekend I am visiting a local Shakespeare Garden, a small local park
> that already has some blooms (a few weeks on it will turn into a lovely
> rose garden), and just generally perambulating about enjoying nature's
> bounty...we've had a cold and even snowy April, time to get out.
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> And if you could be a tree, what sort of tree would you wish to be...???
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> ;-)
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> Best
> Greg
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> That garden sounds heavenly I didn't know what tree I should be so I
> asked my husband and he said Sweet Chestnut <g> Who am I to argue)
>
> You?


I want to be a giant Sequoia, protected and has seen it all.

Cheri