Bad Name for a Backpacker! Re: [at-l] My Trail Name

[tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us (Thomas McGinnis)]

     Terrible, terrible, terrible name for any long distance 
     backpacker-type! Do you have ANY idea how much EXTRA FOOD you'll have 
     to carry to "Honor...all of creation"!!!??? Hundreds of pounds! Not to 
     mention: A few hundred miles up the trail, and you'll have 
     throughhikers all around you, concentrated on the four compass points, 
     of course, every time they see you even APPROACH your food bag. When 
     the time comes to honor the FOUR WINDS, I would predict TOTAL CHAOS as 
     these appetites-in-boots thrash and manuever for a mouthfull of 
     whatever you're tossing north, south, east, and west. Would make the 
     NBA finals look like child's play.
     
     Heeeyyyyyyyy, wait a minute. You're not HONORING the FOUR WINDS! You 
     ARE the Four Winds! You expecting OTHER hikers to make offerings to 
     YOU??!! Huh?? Is THAT the scam? On to you! We're on to you! Free Food? 
     I don't think so!


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Subject: [at-l] My Trail Name
Author:  Fourwh1021@aol.com at ima
Date:    10/14/98 9:16 PM


An accident occurred today - someone thought my screen name meant something 
other than what it did.
     
He called me "Four Winds." 
     
But I liked it - so I researched the name.  I liked it even more.  
     
"Follow your own footsteps. Learn from the rivers, the trees and the rocks. 
Honor yourself, and all of creation." 
     
Four Winds
Ga > Me  00
     
p.s.
Thanks, Kurt :)
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