[at-l] Failing the List requirements and elves

[The Lehmkuhl Family" <lehmkuhl@gte.net (The Lehmkuhl Family)]

I don't think you are a candidate for the psych ward actually I am somewhat
the same way....I love trees but rocks and I connect too. Trees stand and
struggle and live ages and ages just seems that they should tell the stories
of what they see. Also, rocks have lived in the center of the earth been
pushed up and eroded and when you get to the tops of the mountains and see
those old gentlemen who have come up from the ground centuries ago and have
sat there taking it all...well I have to touch them and ask them to tell me
how they have stood so long so strong...yet a tree can root itself on top of
that strong rock on the tiniest of clumps of dirt and then proceed to crack
and grow into and around and over that rock....amazing....the force of
nature to survive.

well again, enuf, we surely, you and I will be committed and have rocking
chairs next to each other with matching...oh pink or yellow strait jackets
if we do too much more of this...

vera :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nina Baxley" <infpeace@yahoo.com>
To: "The Lehmkuhl Family" <lehmkuhl@gte.net>; <Slyatpct@aol.com>; "at-l"
<at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Failing the List requirements and elves


> I am the same way. I always figured it was because I
> have a runaway imagination and tend to personify
> everything and sense the "spirit" of all the beings
> out there. So, to talk to the trees and flowers, then
> listen for an answer (and sometimes get one!) isn't
> such an unusual thing. And tree hugging ...
> definitely. I feel like they're all my "friends" out
> there, and there is such an overwhelming sense of
> connection, it doesn't make sense NOT to talk to them
> or hug them. Kind of like when you hug an old friend
> you haven't seen in awhile. Part of it, too, is that
> I'm a tactile person--I have to touch
> everything--bark, leaves, rocks, water, lichens, etc.
>
> OK, Orange Bug, have I qualified for the psych unit
> yet? :-)
>
> Let's see, the last tree I hugged was on the Foothills
> Trail in South Carolina several weeks ago. The
> yellow-blazed trail had ended and we started hiking
> the white-blazed trail. I know we were miles from the
> AT, but there's just something about a tree with the
> first white blaze painted on it that made me feel like
> going up and hugging a long-lost friend.
>
> OK, time to go--the real world of cubicles and air
> conditioner (ugh) awaits ...
>
> Waterfall
>
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