[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[at-l] Failing the List requirements and elves



you do that too eh? hmmm, well I don't remember really where the rocks come
from that I pick up after a while they all run together. However, they
represent for me a myriad of good times and wonderful places I have been...
vera
----- Original Message -----
From: <DaRedhead@aol.com>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Failing the List requirements and elves


> In a message dated 8/15/01 10:49:46 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
> lehmkuhl@gte.net writes:
>
>
> > oh pink or yellow strait jackets if we do too much more of this...
> >
> > vera :)
> >
>
> Okay - so over Labor Day, while in camp, we will have much younger trees
to
> hug than our western neighbors.  So this makes me happy - I can just hug a
> rock :)
>
> On the other hand - every single important or memorable event in my life,
> I've picked up a rock to remember it by.  Cassy knows this now, and picks
up
> her own rock.  What do I do with that collection of rocks, going back to
the
> first trip in the Shenandoahs when I decided in my little kid mind that
those
> rocks meant something?  I keep them.  I touch them when really upset.  I
> bring them out and spread them on my bed when things REALLY suck, like
now.
> I look at each one, and even without a tag telling who and what they are,
I
> remember the event or time that caused me to pick up that rock.
>
> (they are all small - I am really trying to get into light weight
backpacking
> ;-) and apparently was even when I was 6.)
>
> ;)
>
> The Redhead
>
>
> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
> multipart/alternative
>   text/plain (text body -- kept)
>   text/html
> ---
> _______________________________________________
> AT-L mailing list
> AT-L@mailman.backcountry.net
> http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/at-l
>