Topic 37 of 92: Mystical woodland walks
Tue, Jul 11, 2000 (22:52) |
Americ Azevedo (americ)
On some of my walks in the woods, I become quiet and just listen and feel all around. The senses seem to go deep in the environment. I begin to feel everything - the whole universe. So that everything that I feel or hear or see is in me and I in it. Everything becomes part of the natural order of life.
Again, I can have this same experience in my own room. I can sit, follow my breath until I fall into mediation. Thoughts come in, and thoughts pass away. The felt sense of "being here" then becomes more apprent.
The woodland walk might happen anywhere. Do remember that the woods are also filled with activity: wind, storms, rains, trees falling, etc.
I am not a nature romantic. I know that "nature" as jungle or wood can be as violent as civilization -- its just not our kind of violence. Easy to be a nature romantic when you are a mere visitor to safe campsites, or walks where the mountain lions and rattlesnakes have been reduced to very small numbers by civilized people.
So the mystical woodland walk is more a state of the walker's mind, than an objective state of reality.
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Response 1 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jul 11, 2000 (23:31) * 5 lines
These walks I know well. One springs to mind from long ago in the remotes West Virginia. Cathedral arched created by great lacy elms. Mossy rocks held the banks of the clearest stream on earth. An ethereal calm and peace descends on you in there. Senses sharpened not in fear but in some sort of communion with the entire surrounding nature. I always thought it the lovliest place on earth and perfect for a wedding.
More recently i felt that affinity on a hike through the High Sierra of California surrounded by the most incredible trees I have ever seen. Sequoia! You think you are prepared for them by reading the literature and seeing so many pictures. Wrong! It is a profoundly moving experience just to dwell in their shade for a little while.
Americ, thank you for creating this wonderful topic. Geo is Honored to have you here! Aloha
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Response 2 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 12, 2000 (00:16) * 1 lines
Have you visited the Ent Woods? I think they would be very like your mystical woodland walks...
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Response 3 of 158: Americ Azevedo (americ) * Wed, Jul 12, 2000 (09:33) * 1 lines
Where are the Ent Woods?
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Response 4 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 12, 2000 (12:55) * 1 lines
The Ent Forest lives in "The Lord of the Rings". Guess that must have gotten past you in your youth. I discovered it in college and have bound copies... It has all the elements of wisdom and ethereal ancientness which my mystical woodlands need. Some time when you have lots of time...
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Response 5 of 158: Americ Azevedo (americ) * Thu, Jul 13, 2000 (09:30) * 4 lines
Actually, I did read Rings.
Thank you for reminding me.
One of the most magical periods of my life.
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Response 6 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jul 13, 2000 (12:24) * 1 lines
Thought you might have. I think it is time I got my copies out and reread them. I have been dealing in reality intensively lately. A need a break! Nuthing like a good read to put a little magic back into our lives!
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Response 7 of 158: anne hale (ommin) * Thu, Jul 13, 2000 (20:33) * 1 lines
When I lived in the U.K. I dwelt within a short distance of a large woodland mainly oak trees. It was magic. Especially in winter - here I imagined myself as Frodo, or Bilbo or whatever wandering through ancient Middle Earth woodland. Roman remains there too- a tile factory is within and has been overgrown with oaks and bushes. It has such an ancient feel and although at times extremely muddy and wet is wonderful to wander through. When snow has fallen, the ruts and puddles frozen over, a golden retriever by your side - chasing birds and I know not what. That is magic.
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Response 8 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jul 13, 2000 (20:57) * 1 lines
Oh My Heavens.......I could get happily lost there forever, I think!!!
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Response 9 of 158: Americ Azevedo (americ) * Fri, Jul 14, 2000 (11:30) * 3 lines
Marcia & Anne -- could I copy and quote your comments above in a book I am writing???
I happen to be writing a book about Time, Love, and Money in the Internet Age -- and this theme of earth and woods is part of it.
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Response 10 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jul 14, 2000 (12:35) * 1 lines
Americ, you have my permission, of course. Let us know how the book is going and when we may all read it. I am a big supporters (morale wise) of those who write for publilcation. I am delighted and pleased!!!
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Response 11 of 158: Americ Azevedo (americ) * Sat, Jul 15, 2000 (11:55) * 1 lines
Thank you!
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Response 12 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 15, 2000 (14:34) * 1 lines
*rubbing hands in acticipation of a good read. I know he can write - have read his conference...*
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Response 13 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 15, 2000 (14:35) * 1 lines
I will contact Anne for you, Americ, but I think once it is on the internet, it is fair game. (Yes, it is polite to ask permission!)
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Response 14 of 158: Americ Azevedo (americ) * Sat, Jul 15, 2000 (22:48) * 1 lines
Thank you. You are very kind.
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Response 15 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 15, 2000 (23:16) * 1 lines
It is the least I can do for someone thoughtful enough to be interested in my little conference and great enough to create his own topic. I am enchanted to have you here. I appreciate and applaud the way you think.
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Response 16 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 15, 2000 (23:17) * 1 lines
By the way, the letter to her was dispatched via email this morning. We should be hearing from her shortly.
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Response 17 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 15, 2000 (23:41) * 1 lines
Americ, I have just spoken with Anne and she gives her permission to use her musings in your book.
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Response 18 of 158: Americ Azevedo (americ) * Sun, Jul 16, 2000 (09:52) * 1 lines
Great...I have just incorporated both your comments into this section.
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Response 19 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Jul 16, 2000 (13:16) * 1 lines
When I return from Sequoia country in a few weeks I will have more comments to make. There is nothing quite like hiking the High Sierra with the biggest trees on earth surrounding you.
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Response 20 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Sun, Jul 16, 2000 (15:17) * 1 lines
If those trees could talk, just think of all the history they could tell you.
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Response 21 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Jul 16, 2000 (16:04) * 1 lines
Dendrochronology is as close to getting them to talk as they have come so far...
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Response 22 of 158: anne hale (ommin) * Sun, Jul 16, 2000 (20:36) * 1 lines
I used to imagine when walking in woodland that the trees could talk. I used to talk to them, (I am quite crazy) expecting them to answer. I used to touch the smaller oak trees and wish them a long life. But am a Narnia fan and I used to imagine I was in a Narnian wood and the trees were talking to each other as you could hear the hiss of the wind. But whos to say they don't!
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Response 23 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Mon, Jul 17, 2000 (16:43) * 3 lines
They may well talk to each other, but we just can't hear it. Even if we could, we probably wouldn't understand.
You are right, Marcia. We can learn a lot from the cores taken from trees.
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Response 24 of 158: _cosmo_ (aa9il) * Wed, Jul 26, 2000 (19:48) * 14 lines
Greetings all
Two walks come to mind...
Both are from the TX hill country - when I lived in Austin, I used
to wander the trails of the Barton green belt. I found a dry creek
off the trail and would sit. On the ground were little fossil shells
scattered about - really cool.
The other was when I would wander off to Enchanted Rock and scramble
about the giant granite domes. There were quartz veins in the rock
and I even had a special boulder at the top where I would sit and
stare off into the distance. A nice place to just 'be'
Mike
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Response 25 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 26, 2000 (20:56) * 3 lines
I have just been in the environs of the Ponderosa, Coastal redwoods and the Sequoia. Took lots of pictures and will post them directly, or as soon as I return from California
Mike! Fossils?! Too good!
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Response 26 of 158: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Wed, Jul 26, 2000 (20:59) * 1 lines
marcia????????
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Response 27 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 26, 2000 (22:29) * 1 lines
Yo Wolfie!!! Talking to you on my new laptop!!!
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Response 28 of 158: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Wed, Jul 26, 2000 (22:48) * 1 lines
oh i'm so glad, i miss you girl!!!!!!
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Response 29 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jul 27, 2000 (12:40) * 2 lines
Have not downloaded MSN to this laptop but will be home tomorrow... Then I shall post my spledid tree pix. I took a bunch!!! I miss you, too!
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Response 30 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Sat, Jul 29, 2000 (12:22) * 1 lines
Where are the tree pictures?
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Response 31 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 29, 2000 (22:48) * 1 lines
On the CD David burned for me. I have a huge fever....give me a few days to recover before I attempt to put CuteFTP on the new computer and all the rest. This laptop is good, but not sure it could handle it. Patience, my dear Cheryl!
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Response 32 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Mon, Jul 31, 2000 (16:54) * 1 lines
Get well soon. I can wait.
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Response 33 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 31, 2000 (17:32) * 1 lines
Thanks...we burned them all onto a CD and this new PC is having trouble accessing them. Any my voice does not work so I am without means of exhorting the processor to get on with it and gimme my pictures!
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Response 34 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Mon, Jul 31, 2000 (19:32) * 1 lines
The wonders of technology.
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Response 35 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 31, 2000 (23:15) * 1 lines
Tell me about it! Will check on it tomorrow and plead with son for another attempt if this one fails. I think it was just my new PC not finding my Q drive, so I played a musical CD on it and know it works.
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Response 36 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Sep 7, 2000 (16:16) * 3 lines
My initial trip into the High Sierra mountain range in California involved a throw-away panoramic camera and some binoculars. I wanted, more than just about anyting else besides huge trees, to see a Bald Eagle. I did not, but then I got my pictures back this is one I noted right away. I was trying to photograph the clouds rolling into the valley at the left and used the dead tree for the right hand frame...out of the corner of my eye. Look what I found on that dead tree! I cannot claim him on my life list nor can I say I ever saw onem, but apparently I did...
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Response 37 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Sep 7, 2000 (16:19) * 3 lines
The next place we went was to Sequoia National Park which has just been added to the protective list of National landmarks. I REALLY wanted to see a Giant Sequoia. This was the first one right inside the entrance with a convenient normal-sized park ranger standing beside it. Note: This tree is about 1/2 as tall as it should be - having been topped at an early age by storm or lightning.
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Response 38 of 158: Moon Dreams (Moon) * Thu, Sep 7, 2000 (16:46) * 2 lines
Marcia, you did well with your throw-away panoramic camera. *clap* *clap*
Lovely!
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Response 39 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Thu, Sep 7, 2000 (18:50) * 1 lines
Marcia, the pictures are beautiful. You're right that is a bald eagle sitting on the dead tree. It's white feathered head can be made out. The Sequoia tree is still impressive, even at half of its possible height.
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Response 40 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Sep 7, 2000 (19:53) * 1 lines
I know...I know....My eagle!!! How could I have missed it??!! It could not have been more obvious! If I have to breathe California air I want to see Sequoias, too. They are the most astounding things I have ever seen. They are so enormous that seeing them is very emotional for me - almost like hearing great music. It moves me in ways hard to put into words. And, that was not even a particularly huge sequoia in my picture - I will hunt for others...
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Response 41 of 158: anne hale (ommin) * Thu, Sep 7, 2000 (21:51) * 1 lines
I have the same feeling when seeing a vast Oak, or in particular a Karri or Tingle tree. The Karri - you too can drive through. I touch them and feel they are alive - they have seen so much more than I can ever see - and I feel like weeping with them when they are cut down.
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Response 42 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Sep 8, 2000 (00:54) * 1 lines
Yes...precisely! Far too majestic to suffer a fate so mundane. I agree!
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Response 43 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jan 12, 2001 (17:51) * 43 lines
Limiting Sierra Nevada Logging Urged
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service issued a plan Friday
to safeguard a huge swath of the Sierra Nevada, proposing dramatic
restrictions on logging and new protections for water and wildlife in 11
national forests.
Environmentalists welcomed the blueprint, while the timber industry was
critical and charged that the plan was pushed through in the waning
days of the Clinton administration as part of the president's attempt to
build an environmental legacy.
``It will all but eliminate logging in the national forests,'' said Chris
Nance of the California Forestry Association, which represents mills,
foresters, wood-products manufacturers, forest owners and others.
The proposal, the product of years of study and hearings, bars logging
of old-growth and big trees, protects areas near streams and meadows
and calls for thinning of small-diameter trees near inhabited areas to
prevent wildfires.
The plan covers 11.5 million acres of federal forests, and includes
protections for the California spotted owl and other species.
Opponents have 90 days to appeal to the chief of the Forest Service,
Mike Dombeck, a Clinton administration appointee who is expected to
be in office for another four months. If Dombeck upholds the rules,
opponents could pursue further appeals in court.
The Sierra, a spectacular 500-mile-long mountain range that includes
Mount Whitney, Lake Tahoe, and Yosemite and Sequoia national
parks, has suffered environmental damage for years from logging, a
growing population, traffic and increasing numbers of visitors
The Forest Service plan covers about 40 percent of the Sierra. It does
not apply to private or state property.
Environmentalists said the 1,800-page proposal marks a welcome shift
by the government toward conservation.
``It is a shift in the Forest Service's fundamental goal of forest
management,'' said Jay Watson of The Wilderness Society. ``The shift
is from logging to what will now be a focus on old-growth protections
and reducing the risk of wildfire.''
Nance, the timber industry representative, said the plan would limit
logging to 50 million to 100 million board feet annually. The Forest
Service's numbers were higher - 191 million board feet during the first
five years, and just over 100 million board feet after that.
But federal authorities, environmentalists and timber interests agreed
that under the new plan, logging would be dramatically limited.
At logging's height, in the late 1980s, timber harvesting reached an
estimated 900 million board feet.
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Response 44 of 158: Maggie (sociolingo) * Thu, May 24, 2001 (00:35) * 3 lines
the bluebells are in full force here(UK) now ..but many paths are still closed ...must make the effort to go and walk in a wood I know near here that is open. This one has a sculpture trail which although doesn't add to the atmosphere really is interesting.
Thinking of mystics ...we have woods just opposite us ..and I NEVER walk there ..just a horrible feeling from them.
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Response 45 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, May 25, 2001 (14:04) * 3 lines
Britain's woods have an ancient historic quality about them from the most ancient times. I know how spooky some of them feel, and not a chance this most pragmatic of ladies would venture in there alone in the gloom of night. Might encounter a Wild Bore - probably a lost Norman looking for the rest of the French who love to visit but cannot stand the natives.
I remember posting your bluebells last year in the Garden Conference. How very lovely they were. I'll bet they smell wonderful, as well. Are they limbering up the willow yet or the old bowling arm? Cricket from Lords .... *sigh*
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Response 46 of 158: Maggie (sociolingo) * Fri, May 25, 2001 (15:32) * 2 lines
yup ...the house male almost went on monday for £10 when the was the possibility of an extra days play (the price is so prohibitie ..thats the only way ordinary mortals like ourselves could afford to go ..but they finished before sun down ... oh well ... next time
(no woodland walks for me this weekend ..ended up in ER this afternoon)
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Response 47 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 28, 2001 (22:18) * 3 lines
Your ankle again? *HUGS!*
Sports at any large venue here (the US in general) is prohibitive. How they manage to fill the stands amazes me. $75/car for NASCAR??? Over $100 to take your kids to a baseball game and feed them a few hot dogs? I suggest the nearest small college (Maggie, beware of Reading archy-types!) or a village green pick-up game if such still exists.
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Response 48 of 158: Maggie (sociolingo) * Tue, May 29, 2001 (03:12) * 1 lines
(Reading is NOT a small college! Huff. I DO know the secretary (male) of a local village cricket team ..maybe we'll go and watch them play ..you know take the picnic hamper and stuff ...)
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Response 49 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 29, 2001 (23:49) * 1 lines
(Yes, Yes, I know!!! I've actually been to Reading!) Take my heart with you and my eyes. How I long to SEE a cricket match! *yearningly*
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Response 50 of 158: horrible horace (horrible) * Sun, Jun 3, 2001 (19:06) * 1 lines
Marcia,I went to the John F. Kennedy Aboretum in Wexford,Ireland today an whereas it may not be a woodland walk in the strict sense all I can say is WOW so many species and varieties in a 500 acre setting,its so beautiful.Set up to honour the memory of JFK it is just beside the Kennedy homestead near New Ross,Co. Wexford and with its 4500 species it is one of the few Government projects that I have ever seen that I can honestly praise.
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Response 51 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Jun 3, 2001 (23:49) * 3 lines
Did you listen to the silence for me? It sounds exquisite. Next time you go, take my eyes and my heart with you. I miss the great trees and forests.
I recall being at Kew on a very cold day. We popped into the heated palm house and my son pronounced that THIS was real and outdoors was refrigerated. That is how the world looked to a 14-year-old from Hawaii.
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Response 52 of 158: horrible horace (horrible) * Mon, Jun 11, 2001 (18:40) * 1 lines
Please take a look at http://homepage.eircom.net/~bree/Woodlandsetc.html Its my contribution towards a better envirnoment for the future. Liam
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Response 53 of 158: horrible horace (horrible) * Mon, Jun 11, 2001 (18:47) * 1 lines
And be kind to this unfinnished page,I have been to html and back to get it done and posted so fast
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Response 54 of 158: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jun 11, 2001 (19:31) * 1 lines
The pictures are great. It is a mystical woodland walk, well named! I would make each of these pictures a webpage with a link to the next part of the woodland walk (or give the user a choice), and I would work on reducing the pixel count while still retaining the excellent quaility of these pictures. That way the user wouldn't have to go back to the index page every time he wanted to take the next part of the woodland walk. The pictures are so fine that they'll probably take the trouble anyway!
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Response 55 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jun 11, 2001 (20:34) * 1 lines
Liam, it is lovely! I can smell the crushed leaves underfoot, the scent of the woodsy florals and moisture. How I miss that. The scent of a volcano is very exciting to me, but I do miss the deciduous woods and their seasons. I hope you have room for a resident wood nymph thereabouts...! Your photographs are wonderful. Please take us deeper into your woods and lose us there!
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Response 56 of 158: horrible horace (horrible) * Tue, Jun 12, 2001 (14:34) * 1 lines
Thanks for the kind remarks and advice Terry,I will do a neater job when time permits and your suggestion is good.But if I spend too much time on the page,the walk will take forever!!I have to do the finishing touches to the roof and then paint the outside which has not been done for years and then I work on the walk to relax. Marcia will have a speciall tree to wood nymph away in to her hearts content
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Response 57 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jun 12, 2001 (14:45) * 3 lines
Happy HAPPY wood nymph Marcia. I can always seek refuge in the dolmen in really bad weather. Diaphanopus veils give little ortection against the wintry blasts.
I really am enjoying your splendid work. Not only phsyically, but also that which you take the time to share with us. Hugs for caring about little and big creatures who inhabit your part of the world!
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Response 58 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jun 14, 2001 (17:33) * 32 lines
Liam, thank you! This one breaks my heart. We played conkers when I was a kid.
Conker trees to be given the chop
By David Sapsted
Norwich City Council
TWENTY roadside horse chestnut trees are to be felled because a council
has decided that conkers are a great risk to life and limb.
Norwich city council says that children and passers-by could suffer serious
head injuries from sticks thrown up to knock down the conkers. Squashed
conkers render road surfaces slippery, making driving hazardous, it says.
Falling husks could distract drivers and cause further accidents and children
collecting conkers risk being run down.
The Labour-controlled council admitted yesterday that no such accidents had
occurred. But it said it was determined to remove the trees from "hazardous"
locations, the first seven next week in Bluebell Road. The residents of the
road are urging the council to think again.
more... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=004826292612046&rtmo=rQb2tD2X&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/01/6/14/nconk14.html
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Response 59 of 158: horrible horace (horrible) * Sun, Jun 17, 2001 (07:17) * 1 lines
Same council banned kids balloons in 1990 i just read yesterday!
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Response 60 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Jun 17, 2001 (16:31) * 3 lines
Balloons? What next? Gonna ban childhood altoghther just in case some inept kid climbs the stairs and falls down (I seem to have done that a lot)- or worse, an inept parent pin diapers to the child instead of to the rest of the fabric (not naming names, but my son still has that scar!).
Shakespeare should have had someone act on his though of first, kill all the attorneys. Or something to that effect. Sorry, Ree, but this is ridiculous! Balloons? More dangerous than the pet dog? The family car? Glass Christmas tree balls?
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Response 63 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jun 22, 2001 (00:48) * 135 lines
He only has eyes for yews
A great yew tree in Killarney's Muckross Abbey
gave Italian aristocrat Guido Mina di Sospiro the
perfect setting for a philosophical tale. His dislike for
modernity helps to explain why his heroine is a
2,000-year-old tree
Self-confessedly in love with knowledge, symbols and trees,
Guido Mina di Sospiro looks like an academic and possesses
the demeanour of a concerned medieval prince. With a bright
green yew frond in his top pocket and a welcoming smile, he
makes no secret of his dislike of modernity, a dislike he
expresses with more sorrow than aggression.
"I revolt against it. Modernity has many problems, among the
most serious is its lack of tradition; its loss of tradition." It is not
surprising that he chose to write an eloquent, philosophical and
wonderful tale from the viewpoint of a 2,000-year-old female
yew recalling her life. "Trees are so much more interesting than
most inconsequential humans, don't you find?"
He belongs to an ancient Italian family with a history reaching
back to the eighth century Carolingian Europe of Charlemagne
"on my father's side, and on my mother's to an ancestor
Bernardo da Quintavalle, who was the first follower of Francis
of Assisi". Part of the family name, di Sospiro, is that of a town
close to Cremona in Northern Italy. Having read the book, The
Story of Yew, in a proof copy unaccompanied by biographical
notes, all I have been told about him is that he is a count. He
smiles understandingly and corrects this, "I am a marchese"
the Italian for a marquess - "it's somewhat higher in rank".
Having been so precisely and matter-of-factly put right on
matters of aristocratic lineage, I present my lowly credentials. I
have a fine pair of venerable yews - a female and a male - in
my garden, but . . . I was born in Los Angeles.
Again he smiles understandingly. "Ah, I studied there, at the
University of Southern California. I lived in Los Angeles for
what . . . 10, 12 years. Now I live in Miami."
He understands far more than your average aristocrat, Italian or
otherwise, about most things. The US no longer surprises him,
although when he first arrived in California in 1980 to study
orchestration and conducting, he encountered culture shock at
its most surreal. "I thought to myself, 'My God, this looks like
CHiPs' - you remember that terrible TV show?" He may be a
dreamer and, as he says several times throughout the interview,
"a storyteller", but he is also extremely practical and
methodical. And, as soon becomes clear, he pursues - with
polite relentlessness - information, ideas and people, such as
the late Alan Mitchell, an international authority on trees, and
Rupert Sheldrake, a behavioural scientist whose work he
admires. He is unusual: at once far older than his 41 years, and
also much younger.
"Yes" he says. "I feel this, very young and very old." He is also
persistent, tenacious and encyclopaedic without being pedantic.
He has a sense of humour. Words like "mania" and "obsession"
don't alarm him. He accepts them as accurate.
"When I was writing this book, I was one of the five most
knowledgeable persons on the planet on the subject of yew
trees." He sighs. Perhaps from satisfaction, or possibly from
regret at the limitations of memory - although his is certainly
impressive.
The Story of Yew, for all its beauty and magic, myth and
symbolism, draws on scientific fact. He set out to write a story
and to beguile but he also wanted botanists to endorse it. They
have.
Although born in 1960, he describes his Italian childhood as
Victorian. "It was very strict. I don't think I ever played." Does
he regret this? "I don't think so, there were other good things. I
was also so curious. I had to know. I asked tough questions. I
even made the priest cry. But, yes, it was very disciplined. My
father decided I had to learn to fence when I was five. At
sabre." As anyone with an interest in fencing will know, this
means little Guido was expected to begin with the largest
fencing sword, bypassing foil and épée. Among the family's
several homes he knew as a child is one on Lake Como to
which he, his Spanish wife and three sons "migrate to each
year, we are like the birds". When he was small, his
grandmother ruled over it. "The house was open every year on
the first of May and then closed - regardless of how good the
weather still was - on the 1st of October. That was the way."
The lands of the Como house, about 80 kilometres north of
Milan, are a paradise for trees. "They grew right beside the
lake, so they are pumping water all the time. They are huge.
You look at one and think, `it must be 500 years old', but in
fact it is only maybe a century." Among the trees at Como is a
giant oriental plane tree, the largest in the world. "It takes 11
people to to embrace its trunk. You must come to see it. The
house, I Plantani [the plane trees], is named for it." Trees such
as this remarkable plane on his land have left him feeling a need
to be "worthy of my family's legacy". He first became aware of
trees when he was "about eight, or nine". An English girl came
to visit the family. "And like every good English girl of that type,
she knew her trees and began identifying them. When she came
to the yew, she made the pun on yew and you. It was enough."
Young Guido became "interested, more like fascinated,
bewitched. It was as simple as that."
When it came to writing a book with a tree as witness to the
natural world and the threats perpetrated by man, he obviously
needed a tree with a long memory. The yew, as the heroine of
his book discovers early in her long life, is "the high and
mighty". Her mother, the matriarch of the forest, tells her, "You
must have noticed already, small as you are, that no harm has
come to you from the elements or from the creatures of the air,
the earth, the water. Long, very long ago, we were made in
order to outlive all creatures, and reign over them."
As with French novelist Jean Giono's gorgeous allegory, The
Man Who Planted Trees (1954), he wanted to write a book
with a sense of place. Giono set his imaginary tale in Provence.
Giono hoped to entertain as a storyteller but also, more
importantly, to encourage readers to think.
"I know that book, I love it," says Mina di Sospiro, who also
wanted a specific setting. He visited many ancient yews in
England, Scotland and Wales. Yet he failed to find the place he
was searching for. It was the late Alan Brady, then director of
the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin, who asked him, "Have
you looked at the Killarney Yew?" Brady was referring to the
great tree that stands in the middle of Muckross Abbey.
A visit to the abbey, only a mile from the limestone outcrop
hosting the largest wild yew wood in these islands, gave him
"the package I needed".
While local people believe the yew was there before the monks
arrived about 1448, tree experts suggest it was planted after
the foundation of the abbey. Mina di Sospiro gave the tree a
life that began some 1,500 years earlier: in the book, having
been violently cut down by the monks, it survives beneath the
ground and, as yews do, resprouts. The Christian themes of
birth, death, regeneration and survival are strong, as is the
author's practical disapproval of man's cruelty.
Mina di Sospiro lives in a high-tech world and, with his
hurricane-tested Miami studio, is super efficient, yet writes in
formal prose and would probably be happier living as an 18th
century thinker.
"Yes, 18th, no 17th century, better 15th century. I would most
like to be a medieval man."
The Story of the Yew by Guido Mina di Sospiro is published
by Findhorn, £12.95 in UK.
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Response 64 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jun 22, 2001 (00:50) * 76 lines
This book is important to me because his wife is a friend and a great lady. She knows a good Spring, when she sees one, as well!
Book Review
Nothing compares to yew
Dublin , Ireland , May 13 2001
The Story of Yew By Guido Mina di Sospiro Findhorn Press, stg£13 The Story of Yew follows in a fine tradition, that of
philosophy made
user-friendly, as in Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery and Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner, both of which
have become cult classics.
The pun in the title is intentional -- this is both the autobiography of a 2,000-year-old yew tree and the story of the
relationship between us and
nature.
It was inspired by the famous yew at Muckross Abbey in Killarney, home of the oldest stand of yew trees in the world,
and in the foreword Sospiro
sets the tone by asking the reader to put aside his or her assumption of the superiority of the human race.
In the manner of all good fairy tales, it begins by a lakeside in an enchanted forest as yet untainted by human presence.
Here a yew is born to the matriarch of all the trees. The sapling has an innate curiosity, a thirst for knowledge, and she
delights in the wonders of
the world around her.
Using a skilful blend of classic myth and Irish folklore, Sospiro takes us through 2,000 years of Irish history seen from the
yew's perspective, as she
matures from an engaging youngster with a delightful sense of humour through a troubled middle age to a wise and resilient
maturity.
She is 30 summers old when she shares with her fellow creatures a sense of deep apprehension about the arrival of the
strange two-legged,
wingless creatures who hunt for pleasure.
It is from this point that the landscape begins the irrevocable change from woodland to grassland, saved from becoming a
desert only by virtue of
Ireland's abundant rainfall.
The yew's fears are allayed by the Druids' acceptance of her species as central to their religion, but these fears are reborn
with the arrival of
Christianity.
Throughout her life, man continues to cast his shadow on the forest until the arrival of the railways brings nature-loving
tourists, bird watchers and
tree watchers and, as the yew sees it, "the first, tangible, long-overdue signs of mankind coming to its senses".
Along the way we meet the yew's many friends, the wisest and oldest cricket in the land who teaches her that daylight can
hold more terrors than
the darkest night, the wolf who explains how man's penchant for invention fuels his predatory instincts, and the sun-loving
strawberry tree, the
original philanthropist, always in leaf and generous with the birds who love to eat its berries.
Our heroine digresses, as all good storytellers do, to take us down the byways of history.
The mysterious disappearance of the Roman IX Hispana Legion, she explains, was due to one of the world's great love
stories set in motion by an
encounter between the Legion's commander, Aeneas, and the Fairy of the Lake. We learn why Ireland has no
woodpeckers, how St Patrick
banished snakes and how during his Irish apprenticeship, Robin Hood fashioned his first long bow from a branch of the
Muckross yew.
In one of the most gripping passages, the yew's access to the consciousness and memories of all other trees allows her to
travel back in time to the
dawn of creation in the days of the hapless and hopelessly incompetent dinosaurs, a chapter that serves to underline man's
inability to learn from
history.
Trees, we learn, suffer just as humans do and on the death of her majestic mother, the yew undergoes a 30-year-long
period of dormancy and
despair before re-awakening to don the mantle of matriarch.
Aged 1,450 years, she endures the ultimate indignity, being cut down by Franciscan Friars to make room for an abbey.
However, the miraculous
sprouting of green shoots from her lifeless stump is taken as a sign from God and the yew lives on to be declared a
National Monument.
What elevates the book from being merely a charming piece of whimsy is Sospiro's grasp and skilful use of hard scientific
fact. His detailed
explanation of the intricacies of nature, the physiology of trees, their health and growth, their hierarchy, friends and foes,
makes fascinating reading.
It will come as a surprise to many that trees too fight wars.
Faced with a deadly threat from invasive oaks, the yew embarks on an epic battle -- as thrilling as any human conflict --
involving years of careful
strategy and the enlistment of many allies before the final triumph.
Sospiro likens the fate of the forest to a universal plight, one endured by the invaded, the usurped, the wounded and the
murdered around the globe.
It is our duty, he says, to tilt the balance between good and evil. His book is both thought-provoking and highly
entertaining.
Copyright © 2000 Sunday Business Post, Ireland
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Response 65 of 158: Moon Dreams (Moon) * Fri, Jun 22, 2001 (12:03) * 3 lines
To read more about THE STORY OF YEW and see the beautiful artwork go here:
http://www.geocities.com/motjuste7/thestoryofyew.html
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Response 67 of 158: horrible horace (horrible) * Fri, Jun 22, 2001 (14:36) * 1 lines
Remember i mentioned the Yew in the next field to us Marcia? Being poisonous to livestock the Yew is never grown outside of churchyards or very private gardens,yet this one is right in the hedgerow.There had to have been an old settlement there and coupled with the variety of willow at the same location(basket making?) the evidence is strong.Cant wait to get this house of mine done so I can go digging
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Response 68 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jun 22, 2001 (16:21) * 4 lines
Yes, Liam, I remember it well, and I thought of you when I was posting the reviews of this book. I wish I could be a screener or ant to help you excavate.
Yew is special in my life, as well. I haven never lived in a home until Hawaii that did not have its own special Yew!
Aloha Moon! Hmmm.... wonder what she was trying to say. Another Yew fancier, perhaps?!
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Response 69 of 158: Moon Dreams (Moon) * Fri, Jun 22, 2001 (16:31) * 1 lines
I love yew trees. The yew is the tree of the sacred groves. It is a symbol of life (it is a living fossil), and of death (the pip of the berries is highly poisonous). You an eat the berries but you must spit out the pip.
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Response 70 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jun 22, 2001 (17:01) * 3 lines
Ah, I did not know that. I was just told to stay away from them. Thank you, Moon! I viewed them as something very special and somehow sacred to our family.
Perhaps it is in my genes from so far back in time it is part of me. I recall the first thing I photographed in the English countryside was a luxurient Yew hedge. Then I saw a lone standing Yew as I had never seen one before. Absolutely magnificent. The Yew seems to be the European equivalent of the Bristlecone Pine in North America. Trees of such antiquity and strength. They truly give perspective to humans folly. However we do have what passes for Yew here. More about that presently.
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Response 71 of 158: Moon Dreams (Moon) * Sat, Jun 23, 2001 (10:03) * 5 lines
There is the Pacific Yew in California. In Florida we have a close relative the Podocarpus tree.
Because of the respect I have for yew trees. I cringe everytime I see a yew hedge.
It is said that if you sit beneath a yew for hours, you can hallucinate. Many have had mystical experiences.
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Response 72 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jun 23, 2001 (14:38) * 5 lines
Now I am sad that I did not take more time (and further puzzle my already unhappy husband) by tripping out under a great stately Yew. I had hoped that the hedges were made from some type of low spreading yew easily adaptable for stunting and regimenting as is necessary for hedges. Were they not the very hedges in the "Hound of the Baskervilles," my very first Sherlock Holmes book?
I searched out the Yew yesterday and genus Taxus contains many species. Chinese, Pacific (which they list as the Redwood!) and so on. Podpcarpus is a familiar tree to me and grows rather large out here.
Now if only we were discussing Monkey-puzzle trees... we have them, as well!
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Response 73 of 158: horrible horace (horrible) * Sat, Jun 23, 2001 (15:29) * 1 lines
The native one here is T.Baccata(Conifer) and is the one of celtic Myth and romance.It is toxic in all its parts(like me) and is usually only grown as I mentioned before in churchyards or gardens. It makes a perfect hedge and is also use to great effect in the design of mazes.I have lots of cuttings ,hopefully rooting as we speak,taken from the mystery tree near my home.It is as mentioned a very long lived tree and can get over the 1000 yr mark.It is the material of longbows and is a very mystical tree indeed
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Response 74 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jun 23, 2001 (17:38) * 4 lines
Where are you H_H. I am where you think I am waiting for you to reappear.
Longbows. *sigh* Indeed. Check Henry V.
Taxus baccata is the English (sorry) Yew.
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Response 75 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jun 23, 2001 (17:40) * 1 lines
OOOOh talking of mazes... they go waaaaaay back in history. I have only seen box hedge-mazes but I know the original ones were Yew and rites of passage. Are they good in the moonlight?
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Response 76 of 158: Moon Dreams (Moon) * Sat, Jun 23, 2001 (20:03) * 5 lines
HH you can eat the berries of the taxus baccata just don't swallow the pip.
The longbows were the atom bomb of the past and indeed they were made of yew. There is a great chapter in The Story of Yew all about it.
To be in a yew maze is one of the things I plan to do one day. I will report back on my visions. ;-)
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Response 77 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jun 23, 2001 (22:13) * 3 lines
I too wish to be in one and will add that to my wish list for next time I fly 20 hours each way to take my genes home. I NEED to go there! I am beginning to feel that longing deep inside!
No pip-swallowing H_H we cannot lose you now! (but you can inahle if you wish)
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Response 78 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 7, 2001 (13:38) * 5 lines
Liam the wood elf has sent this:
The Saharan cypress (Cupressus dupreziana) is one of the most endangered trees in the world: only 231 individuals remain. These desperate circumstances seem to have driven the tree to evolve an unusual way of reproducing its pollen develops asexually in a surrogate mother of another species.
Christian Pichot of the Unité de Recherches Forestières Mediterranéennes, Avignon, France, and colleagues examined the offspring of crosses between pollen from C. dupreziana and the much more common C. sempervirens. All the progeny were identical to the paternal C. dupreziana, write the researchers in a Brief Communication. Asexual reproduction from female tissues is common in plants, but this is the first instance of such paternal apomixis .
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Response 79 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Mar 15, 2002 (21:49) * 6 lines
On huge tree does not a woodland make, but this is mine planted from a seedling by ME with orchids blooming where the great branches divide from the trunk.
Dendrobiums - just in time for Easter!
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Response 80 of 158: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Sat, Mar 16, 2002 (09:42) * 1 lines
i'm green, i tell ya, green!!! that's wonderful marcia!!!! and it's YOUR tree!!!!!
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Response 81 of 158: John Tsatsaragos (tsatsvol) * Sat, Mar 16, 2002 (19:10) * 6 lines
Beautiful combination Marcia. Life on life and beauty of Queen’s garden. It is not mystery. It is a message of what life can do. It is a harmony tone of the life’s song.
We owed our life to this green color Wolfie. I would say that green is the color of hope. It is good for relaxation of our eyes and ideal opportunity of an ignition for beautiful thoughts.
John
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Response 82 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (12:30) * 1 lines
I will be posting more. I have several orchids of different sorts blooming all at the same time now. They are so fragrant and beautiful. I wish I could share them with you!
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Response 83 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (12:57) * 1 lines
Wolfie, you are Green but not surely from Envy. (which I think is what you meant) In order to have orchids bloom spontaneoulsly in your trees takes more rain than most people would tolerate!
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Response 84 of 158: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (19:23) * 1 lines
if i had a sheltered (and permanent site) i would put mine outdoors too!! went buy Home Depot and smelled some marvelous orchids but, alas, as is the norm, no name to go with the plant *sigh*
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Response 85 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (21:43) * 7 lines
you need to take a digital camera with you! Here, all plants must carry botanical and common names and how big it will eventually get.
The only place this grows is in Hawaii. It is the Hawaiian Ground Orchid
(I'll look it up in a bit if you need to know...) It is currently living on my potting table in the yard under my huge tree.
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Response 86 of 158: _cosmo_ (aa9il) * Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (22:06) * 11 lines
Howdy howdy
What really cool and interesting plants! Digital cameras are the neatest
and I should really read the instruction book on ours to learn all the
in's and out's and take some pix to post on the web.
Survived the move - surrounded by boxes and slowly digging out.
BTW, how much rain is typical to get orchids growing in the trees like
that?
73 de AA9IL
Mike
r-c-i
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Response 87 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (22:31) * 5 lines
Mike! *laughing* Read the manual only when all else fails!
Digitals are fantastic - instant gratification even! I got to watch my son's wedding that way - I managed to get the flu and missed it. But this was second best. I got to see them almost real time!
If you want to post anything on Spring, send it to me and I will FTP it to Spring' Hard drive sector saved for Geo goodies and I will send you the url for it so you can post it! Get out there and take some pictures of your gear and work room. We want to see how many things you have burnt holes in while attempting to solder. And, then turn it on you!
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Response 88 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (22:36) * 3 lines
if you water them each day and it is warm where you are (no freezing!) you can grow Orchids about anywhere there is humidity in the air. They are epiphytes so they have their roots in the air absorbing what mooisture and nutrients the trees drop on them. They like bright filtered shade (as in a leafy tree which only filters the sunlight but does not block it out.) Water them daily....give them som mulch and a tree branch to hang onto and you're off. pot them for the winter and bring them inside. Wolfie can tell you about that. Mine just sort of showed up. I found a bashed and leafless bit of orchid stem on the roadway and stuck it in the tree - it branched out into two separate clusters you can see. Above them are cinnamon-scented pure white dendrobiums (virginalis) which wil bloom around Easter.
Hilo gets 150 inches of rain / year with 200 on really wet years. We also have high humidity!
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Response 89 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (22:38) * 1 lines
I planted that tree, by the way. It was in a gallon coffee can and was about the diameter of a pencil when I did so.
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Response 90 of 158: _cosmo_ (aa9il) * Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (22:42) * 12 lines
hi all
150 inches of rain? That would be a flood of biblical proportions
around here.
Read the manual? Hmmm....
(you know what they say about engineers and instruction manuals)
I guess I can take some pictures of the radio room or when out doing
dx tests with the microwave gear. I might even sneak in to a pix
as a guest cameo shot or something...
73 de Mike
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Response 91 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Mar 18, 2002 (18:41) * 3 lines
Great!!!
Yeah, my dad was like that with mauals, too. He said it preserved them better if no one touched them. I agree! Mine are still in the shrink wrapping!
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Response 92 of 158: _cosmo_ (aa9il) * Mon, Mar 18, 2002 (21:11) * 11 lines
At least you can find your manuals
mine are somewhere... (in a box, perhaps?)
Anyway, a couple more days of school foolishness then comes the
warmer wx and I can start enjoying the outdoors. The squirels
are already out and about and plenty of birds in the trees
(woodpeckers, cardinals, jays) plus the usual ducks and geese.
Still no robins, finches tho...
Plus, Im ready for the bats and humming birds to come back up
north then I know that the warm season is solidly here.
73 de Mike
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Response 93 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Mar 18, 2002 (22:00) * 5 lines
yup, they are still deep in the not-so-warm South - those little tiny birds called Hummingbirds. We have none in Hawaii - do you know why? Pineapple is a big crop here, economically. Well, when they are tiny, they bloom little pale purple trumpet flowers, each one in one of those little hexagons making up the whole fruit. If Hummingbirds came to drink pineapple nectar and to fertilize the flowers we'd have seeds inside our pineapples the size of marbles (not Greek or Parthenon Marbles - rather playing marbles which were never made of marble in the first place....) It is not a pretty sight and you end up with very little fruit flesh to eat.
I know spring is not far away when my cardinals sing on the tops of my power poles and the Chinese Thrush enchants with its song. They are magical!
Hang in there, Mike! Study while the wx gets warmer so you can bask in the sun like my anoles do on my Christmas cactus - all velvety and green.
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Response 94 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Mar 18, 2002 (22:01) * 1 lines
Un.. yeah, I can fine my manual for three computers ago which was stolen, and a radio which gave up the ghost many moons ago and is kept for spare parts, etc. I have current ones somewhere around here...
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Response 95 of 158: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Tue, Mar 19, 2002 (19:40) * 1 lines
marcia, that hawaiian ground orchid is absolutely beautiful!!!!
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Response 96 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Mar 19, 2002 (19:44) * 1 lines
I need to take a close-up of a single blossom of the Hawaiian ground orchid. The three slender "petals" are chocloate brown on the inside and moonlight white on the outside. They are very lovely and VERY rare.
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Response 97 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Mar 19, 2002 (19:49) * 2 lines
These bamboo orchids populate the wild flower fields where only ferns grow amongst the ohia trees. They are like weeds out here but absolutley beautiful
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/b308/bigisland/species/arundina/arundina.htm
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Response 98 of 158: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Tue, Mar 19, 2002 (20:00) * 1 lines
they are quite lovely!
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Response 99 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Mar 19, 2002 (20:55) * 3 lines
Let's see, the Hawaiian Ground orchids are about the diameter of an orange. Yhe bamboo orchids are about the diameter of a lemon. I do know that the bamboo orchids do not make good lei flowers. The wither as soon as they are picked. They do not even last in water, so they flourish in the wild and near the sulferous fumeroles on Kilauea.
I'll try to post things with some sort of scale included next time.
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Response 100 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Wed, Mar 20, 2002 (15:30) * 3 lines
Bamboo orchids like sulferous fumes? What do the orchids smell like? Do they have a smell? I know that some types of orchids don't have any scent.
Your tree is beautiful, Marcia. You've every right to be proud of your big, beautiful tree.
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Response 101 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 20, 2002 (16:53) * 7 lines
You would be appalled that those Bamboo orchids are growing in - a'a rubble and lichen is about it, plus a lot of rain. The are scentless at all hours of the day, though most orchids are fragrant in the morning and evening damp stillness.
If the fumes are strong enough, the paricles in the air will turn to acidic sulfur and will burn the orchids when it rains. We have the Mother of all Acid Rain, here!
The Hawaiian Ground orchid and this pretty little "dancing lady" orchid have no fragrance, either.
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Response 102 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Wed, Mar 20, 2002 (16:55) * 1 lines
No fragrance, but the "dancing lady" and the Hawaiian Ground orchid certainly are an eyeful.
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Response 103 of 158: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Wed, Mar 20, 2002 (17:19) * 1 lines
oh yes, oncidium gower ramsey (i think that's the name of that one above, it's of the oncidium family anyway)---they produce plumes and plumes of flowers!!
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Response 104 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 20, 2002 (21:08) * 1 lines
I'll show you the Dancing Lady when it comes into full flower. There are about 5 stalks of 30 or more buds waiting to open - each!
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Response 105 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 20, 2002 (21:08) * 1 lines
Then I'll post them in the garden conference!
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Response 106 of 158: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Thu, Mar 21, 2002 (18:46) * 1 lines
ooohhh yeeeessss!! i own three orchids now and all of them are finished blooming and i am waiting (im)patiently for them to produce flowers again!!
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Response 107 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Mar 21, 2002 (19:26) * 1 lines
....and you took no pictures?? Share your children with us!
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Response 108 of 158: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Fri, Mar 22, 2002 (17:14) * 1 lines
(oh yes, i have pics) and for those who don't know--all my previous children were given away when i had to move. so, i'll find em and figure out the ftp thing again *smile*
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Response 109 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Mar 22, 2002 (21:15) * 2 lines
I can send them to Geo's space - you already have a folder there, just in case.
Let me know. I'm their auntie, so I also need to see their cute little faces!
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Response 111 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, May 11, 2002 (20:32) * 4 lines
My Great Tree now has cinnamon-scented white orchids blooming in its branches.
Dendrobium virginalis
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Response 112 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Sun, May 12, 2002 (12:52) * 1 lines
They're beautiful.
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Response 113 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, May 12, 2002 (15:41) * 6 lines
A better perspective and another closer view (they are my favorites):
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Response 114 of 158: BJ Boone (duffuses) * Sun, May 12, 2002 (19:56) * 2 lines
i live half way up the side of a mountain on 62 acres. Most of it is woodlands.There's a lake at the bottom of the pasture. I love to walk down there andwatch the geese come in and the hawks circle over head. it is so peaceful, you just can't help but be drawn into it.
BJ
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Response 115 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, May 12, 2002 (20:52) * 1 lines
It sounds lovely. Take pictures, email them to me and I will make them available to you for posting on the internet if you like. We'd love to see your world through your eyes. I adore forests and there are so few here...
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Response 116 of 158: BJ Boone (duffuses) * Mon, May 13, 2002 (07:08) * 3 lines
Marcia,
If I can ever figure out how to e-mail pictures I'd love to send you some. I love where i live. Especially, when we have snow and the mountains are covered and the deer come down to the lake. The air is so crisp and clean. I could stay out there for hours.
BJ
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Response 117 of 158: S B Robinson (SBRobinson) * Mon, May 13, 2002 (15:24) * 3 lines
Marcia - the flowers are simply lovely. i can see why they're you favs.
BJ - your location sounds heavenly. Am currently listening to Bill Bryson's A Walk In The Woods on tape each morning and afternoon (as i commute to and from work on conjested freeways). Your description of your woodlands immediately brought it to mind. I envy you.... :-)
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Response 118 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 13, 2002 (15:53) * 2 lines
BJ, in whatever form you have your photos saved, attach them to email - a few at a time and send them to me and I will make them the right form (jpg) and size(under 50KB preferably) then send them to Spring's hard drive vial FTP. I will then email the urls back to you and you may post them as you wish. Thanks.
marci@aloha.net is where I get my email.
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Response 119 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 13, 2002 (15:53) * 1 lines
This offer extends to all Geo-ites who have photos to share with us.
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Response 120 of 158: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Mon, May 13, 2002 (18:42) * 1 lines
marcia, your orchids are quite lovely!!
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Response 121 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 13, 2002 (19:29) * 1 lines
Thanks. They smell even better. Almost edible.
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Response 122 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Tue, May 14, 2002 (17:24) * 1 lines
Can you describe their smell?
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Response 123 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 14, 2002 (20:35) * 1 lines
It's is like wandering into a glass house full of narcissus and other spring flowers including lily-of-the-valley. There is a moist "green" overtone of dawn moisture and opening flowers in the wild. The aroma is sweet but very subtle and ever-so-slightly tinged with cinnamon.
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Response 124 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Wed, May 15, 2002 (17:32) * 1 lines
That sounds wonderful; it would seem that in both the visual and olfactory your ochids are exquisite, Marcia.
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Response 125 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, May 15, 2002 (17:42) * 1 lines
Thank you for the kind comments. My orchids are inspirational. And so easy to grow. you just pick a "keiki" (sprout but literally a child) from your friend's plant and bring it home and poke it in the notch of a tree limb. I have fantastic adeniums too - my smallest had 15 flowers at once on it!
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Response 126 of 158: Cheryl (CherylB) * Wed, May 15, 2002 (17:46) * 1 lines
Orchids are easy to grow in Hawaii! I worked with a man who for years tried to get his orchids to bloom. When he finally succeeded, he was ringing doorbells all over Shadyside (his neighborhood) with the happy news.
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Response 127 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, May 15, 2002 (19:15) * 1 lines
I realize mine just show up in my trees. I have been spoiled by the ability to have instant bushes and trees and all sorts of plants merely by poking a cutting from someone else's plant. No one needs to buy things here. Just take little sticks from the ones you like!
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Response 128 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, May 15, 2002 (19:19) * 1 lines
As I recall, when my dad got his orchid to bloom in New York in his antique Wardian Case the whole neighborhood came to see it. Amazing! They grow as field flowers here!
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Response 129 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Aug 25, 2002 (18:30) * 17 lines
The creator of this topic has been heard from:
Latest eColumn is now up, in which I mention some of the tools and methods
used by my large lecture
class at UC Berkeley. Please go to:
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/7.html
to see article, talking slides, and feedback forum.
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Interesting!
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Response 130 of 158: Americ Azevedo (americ) * Tue, Sep 3, 2002 (19:38) * 4 lines
Here I am.....
again. Fun to see this topic grow....a life of its own.
I shall post a special column out to the "wider world" on this, soon.
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Response 131 of 158: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Sep 4, 2002 (08:42) * 1 lines
Wow, it's great that you're visiting us again, americ. I'm looking forward to that column.
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Response 132 of 158: John Tsatsaragos (tsatsvol) * Thu, Sep 5, 2002 (05:21) * 7 lines
Hi Americ
Welcome back to Geo. Perhaps you find interesting our Special Table of Contents. I can include your name in the Weather, Time & SKY Reports For GEO-Friends list, (which is included there), if I know where you live now. I will be happy to do it for you.
Regards
John
Volos, Greece
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Response 133 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Sep 7, 2002 (15:40) * 10 lines
Americ is at Berkeley, California. His latest transmission about the art of teaching is
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/9.html
for a short insight on how to be more human in online discussions. It
comes from several years of experiences working with thousands of
students and professionals.
Americ
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Response 134 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Sep 7, 2002 (16:24) * 12 lines
Our man Americ has some very salient points about the art of teaching. I wish I could take one of his courses:
Computers are predictable; human beings are not predictable.
Allow yourself your unpredictability -- you don't have to be like a
computer to use a computer. Tell stories, be innovative, surprise
yourself. If everything you say is too well planned and prepared, it
becomes boring online. You might as well be reading a book or
newspaper.
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/9.html
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Response 135 of 158: John Tsatsaragos (tsatsvol) * Sun, Sep 8, 2002 (01:48) * 19 lines
Hi Americ, Marcia and All
I would agree that computers are predictable only if we have their control completely. I mean that ONLY IF WE KNOW ALL PARAMETERS OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE USE. But this is impossible because some other people are programming them. WE HAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT WE KNOW BUT WE CANNOT TO KNOW.
The things with human beings are more complex. We have susceptibilities and
-We have not to communicate with only one other.
-We receive many information in real time i.e. the feelings of the against us other people.
-Complex filters are in continual operation inside us, which they can change the way with which we communicate.
-We can easily do mistakes that we cannot we sense immediately. Etc.
Something important is WHEN WE MUST DON’T PROCEED IN DISCUSSIONS according to our internal situations! (When is there a danger degree to do mistakes or to give out deceptive sensation for us. Perhaps you must write something on it.
I would say that correct is that we need fantasy, imaginativeness and to ignite as more as possible of the human senses and feelings.
Americ, I must give you my "Congratulations" for your work. Your name is already included in Geo’s Special Table of Contents, especially in the topic Weather, Time & SKY Reports For GEO-Friends. I hope that it is useful to you.
Regards
John
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Response 136 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Sep 8, 2002 (15:01) * 25 lines
The very busy Americ has been sending me emails instead of posting. Herewith,I post his most recent offering:
Latest eColumn is now up, in which I mention some of the tools and methods
used by my large lecture
class at UC Berkeley. Please go to:
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/7.html
Marci,
So good to hear from you.
You inspire me to re-publish "Mystical Woodland Walks" within this
Insights context.
Hope you are well.
Americ
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Response 137 of 158: Americ Azevedo (americ) * Sun, Sep 8, 2002 (23:15) * 7 lines
John and Marcia -- thank you so much for your support! I can now see my whether here in Berkeley, Calfornia. Great update system.
I just put up Mystical Woodland Walks as an eColumn at
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/10.html.
Did a re-write of the last concept by actually having a woodland walk yesterday, and recording the thoughts as they came. A link to Geo is made there, too.
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Response 138 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Sep 9, 2002 (18:53) * 3 lines
Fantastic! Welcome back, Americ! How lovely to have a gentleman and a scholar back amongst us. Especially one with great ideas and a sense of humor about it all.
I'm currently in Vacaville. Does it ever get cool in this state?
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Response 139 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Sep 9, 2002 (18:53) * 1 lines
guess I better close the green font tags.
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Response 140 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Sep 9, 2002 (18:55) * 1 lines
and the bold ones. Welcome to html programming. Sorry I did not catch them both at the same time.
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Response 141 of 158: John Tsatsaragos (tsatsvol) * Tue, Sep 10, 2002 (02:25) * 9 lines
Hi Marcia, Americ and all.
I am a mix of a dreamy and of realism man that always trying to explain the why. The experience of sense to be you one with the universe is really great. I have to add that the experience in the forest is unique because there are igniting all the five senses with the real natural transmission. I will laid my body on the leaf bed under the trees, attempting to sense the Earth’s breath and its heart strokes. I had a similar experience in a forest of beeches on a slope of the Mt Pelion when I was younger. The sense of the rebirth is really amazing.
I can say that we cannot create the Universe but we can create an image for it. In any case, we are children’s of the universe. We are consisting from the same materials and we must follow its complex laws. We are the unique known live being which can see the universe with the eyes of the intelligence.
John
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Response 142 of 158: Americ Azevedo (americ) * Tue, Sep 10, 2002 (20:12) * 5 lines
Oh! Sorry about not closing the green and bold font. I thought that the html was only specific to a single post, not everything down the line! Every system is different.
I just added a cartoon to
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/9.html
Hope you like it.
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Response 143 of 158: Americ Azevedo (americ) * Tue, Sep 10, 2002 (20:14) * 5 lines
Opps! I meant
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/10.html
You all have inspired me -- actually my friend Terry did the cartoon.
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Response 144 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Sep 10, 2002 (21:10) * 7 lines
Great cartoon! I would wish to share that woods with a very special companion. Like little children, relishing all there and destroying nothing.
John! Where I am there are sequoia forests nearby. They are majestic and more spiritual in their grandeur than anything man could make. Lovely photo!
Yup, you have to close your tags at the end of what you want programmed - even in the same message!
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Response 145 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Sep 20, 2002 (23:27) * 11 lines
This from Americ. I particularly enjoyed hearing him lecture. reading can be impersonal. This MP3 link made him very real to me and delightfully so!
Includes, MP3, text, and a cartoon. Enjoy. Please visit:
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/10.html
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Response 146 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Sep 20, 2002 (23:29) * 13 lines
Time Poverty is sometimes that many us experience these days.
Please check out:
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/11.html
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Response 147 of 158: John Tsatsaragos (tsatsvol) * Wed, Sep 25, 2002 (02:27) * 22 lines
Hi Marcia, Americ and all,
This is an answer to the excellent article:
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/11.html
Every eighteen months the power of computers doubles. I say YES.
We live in a cultural world where expectations rise to meet the expanding possibilities of technology. I say YES.
Normally, using the new ways of the fast expanding technology, we must save time because we can it. But, we always react different. We use the new abilities to expand our activities, spending the saved time there. Why?
I feel that we live to expand the intellect for unknown reason!
I am not wise too. But I feel as component of the time and space.
I say that I am present. Yes.
But I don’t know if I use the time and space or they uses me. I tend to believe the second because we simply found itself inside it and we must follow its own present rhythm anyway, until the end of what we name life.
I wonder if a giant invisible program drives our decisions.
John
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Response 148 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Oct 5, 2002 (19:24) * 10 lines
The latest from our man Americ:
Friends and Acquaintances,
We just completed work on Insight #12. One of the hardest to speak,
write, picture and edit. I look forward to your feedback on the forum
and in private mail.
Please go to: http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/12.html
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Response 149 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Dec 10, 2002 (20:56) * 22 lines
I have been remiss in posting Americ's thoughts:
Insight #13 - Atomic Friend
Please take a moment to view our latest insight about scientific and
social "reductionism" at http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/13.html .
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/14.html
About a dear friend who passed away a few years ago.
Hope this message finds you all well -- as we move through an amazing time
Is it your money or your life? Please visit
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/15.html and post responses. Let's have
a debate.
This time, I suggest a practice for becoming more present to this moment.
Please visit http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/16.html and post
responses.
---
Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.
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Response 150 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Dec 10, 2002 (20:57) * 12 lines
I just put up a Flash based version of some of the past Insights. Some of
the cartoons are on the slides, and six of audio's you will be able to
hear in streaming format. Just go to:
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/17.html
and, click on the large link on the middle of the page. If your browser
has Flash, you should be able to hear and see what I am talking about.
Be well!
Americ
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Response 151 of 158: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Dec 11, 2002 (07:34) * 1 lines
Great, I love Americ's stuff. The guy's a real genius.
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Response 152 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Dec 11, 2002 (10:57) * 1 lines
He really is, Terry! Brilliant and approachable is not all that common anymore. I am delighted to be on his mailing list!
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Response 153 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Mar 7, 2003 (10:38) * 7 lines
Hello Everyone!
This is an invitation for you to visit the latest Insight at
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/18.html
sincerely,
Americ
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Response 154 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 19, 2003 (19:48) * 19 lines
I am sending out a "talking slide" with a radio interview of Buckminster
Fuller shortly before his death in 1983. It seems like a good time to
re-visit the issue of "war as obsolete".
Please go to
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/19.html
to see and hear the interview.
Thanks to Eyecron.com and Earthstar Radio for production support.
A reader (listener) response link is provided. The slide takes a while to
load into the view (as much as 7 minutes on a 56k modem. But worth it.
sincerely,
Americ
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Response 155 of 158: Americ Azevedo (americ) * Tue, May 20, 2003 (10:50) * 6 lines
nice to see this place
still here.
like an old friend
that one returns to
again and again.
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Response 156 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, May 22, 2003 (19:09) * 3 lines
I am behind in posting your information, Americ, but I will get it caught up in the very near future (or this afternoon if I can get the modem!)
Welcome home! Geo has the finest family feeling, thanks to the collected endeavors of all those who come here to read and post.
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Response 157 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jun 23, 2003 (15:55) * 13 lines
I have composed another insight.
Please view, if you like, at:
http://americ-azevedo.com/insights/22.html
Some of you have personally asked to keep these insights happening. Your
encouragement has been very important here.
sincerely,
Americ
(I have been remiss in reading them. I seem to have fasllen between the cracks somewhere. Please join me in reading this even though I post it over a month late!)
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Response 158 of 158: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jun 23, 2003 (15:58) * 1 lines
Americ, recently there was a program about feral children. They never catch up to their peers because post natal nurturing and affection (touching and talking and eye contact) was missing. These people who repress women and take the sons away immediately to live in a beligerant male society are doomed to war. We just seem to be in the line of fire.
Geo conference 
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