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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jpmac who wrote (39559)	10/13/1999 3:09:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Bwaynose deeass, Thread. Scoop up your cameras and head into the kitchen, I think I will be re-materializing right before your eyes. It's quite a spectacle. I use the kitchen, because I will need a beer as soon as I'm tacky. A good test is to see if an oven mitt will stick to my tummy. (Oh. Bring some pants.) (Fair warning.) (Lots of people don't know that since 1890, Animators have been naked.) (And frequently aroused.) (I heard the last time someone saw St Francis, he was naked, except for a ukelele. "Times change," he said. "We're re-structuring.") I am embarrassed that I faded out without mentioning it. I don't think I can explain why, but I think it had something to do with a weird sort of paranoia. Really. (I said it was weird.) But I've been a busy bee verb. Am was were. Bringing joy to people and their carports. Carports are a tough audience. And you don't have the benefit of waitresses getting them sloppy. They make me back the car out, and stand in the Dry-Vit, with the fresh oil stain. It's hardly worth it. Has everybody here seen The Redwoods? I don't know if they are still spoken well of around the country. And no, Paul doesn't think they should be cutting one single more old one for any goddam reason. These are the most precious trees on Earth. Really. You can tell. Get next to one and find out. But anyway, if you haven't seen them, this is something in life you really shouldn't miss. It's a "Worth It." Meets and exceeds all expectations. Frankly, one of the True Wonders of life. Modern life, especially. Materializing naked. Right before your eyes. A Redwood is something that has to be taken in. Under the wings. You have to make yourself bigger for it. When the phrase ancient is tried to impress upon you, when that word is used, in any context, it may not be sufficient to see the age of the thing being explained. Ancient buildings, still often look like buildings. They are human in creation and human in scale. Built by human-ish hands. A Redwood is much more contained. It contains everything about it's age right in front of you. There is no mystery. Time, in human eons, is difficult to understand. Time, in Redwood Life, at twelve feet through and three hundred to the top, lands on your plate. These trees are SO much bigger than others, that you can easily see how much time a thousand years is. How much two thousand years is. What Nature can do, with time. The sight of the trees will stun you. They will also make you happy that they exist. You feel overwhelming pleasure that this is within the world of Nature to create. It gives you soft, powerful, optimism. All is right with the world, inside this grove. And by extension, everywhere; as long as this grove exists. (You have not seen a "grove" of trees, until you've seen the redwoods.) Something like this can grow, for two thousand long years of 100,000 generations. Two-thousand year cycles, repeated 100 thousand times. Wow. Cows holy, man. Are they "sacred" trees? Duh. Are we sacred humans? Anyway, Dash called and invited me to go back down there in a couple weeks. I suppose I think I should try to make it. It hurts to ride in a car and I might slow him down, but I think maybe I should try it. I could maybe use some of that optimism. A true Millenium Clock. Now I gotta go pick up trash and stuff. Hee hee. I might be too ethereal still for my beer. Bummer.