Edgar,
Okay...this was a good one...I'll give you credit for that... ;>)
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> And Genghis Khan butchered people by the thousands...
>
> -- but it was totally OK because he made thousands more by impregnating
> thousands of women...
> :-)
>
>
> Edgar
>
>
>
> On Jun 9, 2013, at 10:09 PM, Joe wrote:
>
> > Bill!,
> >
> > Fine enough.
> >
> > But trees have always been Friends.
> >
> > My ex- also used to sleep up in trees when she was a child. Remarkable: it
> > could have gone badly!
> >
> > Even though I butcher trees to make things for Buddhist temples and
> > teachers, I have trees as friends, everywhere. North and South.
> >
> > But I plant trees assiduously to make up for what I cull.
> >
> > It's not just Buddhist temples and teachers who "like" what I do / make, it
> > should also be everybody. The carbon in my sticks, etc., is sequestered,
> > until somebody thinks to burn these artifacts. Some of my things may last
> > hundreds of years, my vanity, prejudice, hope, and expectation suspects /
> > expects.
> >
> > I sign my stuff. But no one knows me. Nor, will know me in 300 years.
> > Unless someone speaks up.
> >
> > No comment about "drugs". Done; done. Did I say, "done"? Done.
> >
> > Trees are blameless. Only drug-takers implicate trees, in any funny ways.
> >
> > Not wood-butchers.
> >
> > --Joe
> >
> > > "Bill!" <BillSmart@> wrote:
> > >
> > > But it is related to a recent thread concerning drug usage.
> > > Anyway I thought this one was just too good not to share...
> >
> >
>
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