A View From the Pines

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glenn allenson May 2, 2009, 3:04am EDT

As Good as human reality rendered to sweet articulation GETS!!

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Ron (in complete sheeple overload) W. May 2, 2009, 4:59am EDT

Now if I could just follow my own advice, glenn........

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Sue * May 2, 2009, 9:30am EDT

We all could take some advice from this one. Living in the moment isn't as easy as it sounds.

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Becky L. May 2, 2009, 12:10pm EDT

You are so right, Ron. I really like the line "And condemns the wearer to live there" - how very true. But, how difficult it is to stay in the moment. I'm convinced that it's just a very bad habit (on my part, anyway) and if I keep working at it, reminding myself, perhaps I can turn that habit around 180 degrees. I'm sure going to try! Excellent post, excellent!

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glenn allenson May 2, 2009, 2:01pm EDT

One problem Ron. You ain't no guppy, although my substantially reliable contacts in the guppy community inform me that your claim to guppyhood has incited a wave of pride in their youngsters, with many taking on chores they had been shirking, helping their neighbors and the infirm, all kinds of happy developments going on in the pond!

Myself, believing there is always a buck or two that can be voodooed from such a collective spiritual uprising, I'm offering a new line of guppywear, my Ron Rocks the Pond! dorsal finstickers are selling like planktoncakes, and on the whole, this little enterprise being based upon your Pureness of Heart and the sound guppy economy, things are looking not too shabby at present.

Now, about this email from the Union of Pacific Sharks Against Human Libel...

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Becky L. May 2, 2009, 2:04pm EDT

Too funny, glenn - hehehe!

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Ron (in complete sheeple overload) W. May 2, 2009, 3:29pm EDT

ROFL, all great except that pure of heart thing, Glenn. I'm no angel, I just do what gets me by and still lets me look in the mirror without flinching. And sometimes, I'm sorry to say I flinch....

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glenn allenson May 2, 2009, 7:33pm EDT

Too late Ron, your new CD, "Angel Ron conducts the Coral Reef Manta Ray Ensemble" has already replaced "Blue Whale Mating Symphony" at the top of the aquacharts.

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glenn allenson May 2, 2009, 7:37pm EDT

And your first royalty payment should be arriving soon, I figure a hundred clams should cover your end for starters.

Look for the Vince's Seafood truck, and be sure to drown those critters in cocktail sauce ASAP.

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glenn allenson May 2, 2009, 7:46pm EDT

What I liked the best was your seamless transition from emotional 'pine' to pine as a soul barrier. Smooth as silk, like San Francisco Bay on that Noverber 11th two decades ago, the only time I waterskiied the Bay. Under the prow of a tanker, behind a Zodiac rubber rocket with Joe 'Baby Jesus' Sully in the driver's seat.

The moment was correct, but I do pine a forest for those days. When Joe decided to race a Blue Line ferry into the slip, where dozens of seals and hundreds of tourists cheering us on covered the docks, I thought I was going to become fishfood.

We beat it by a few yards.

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Ron (in complete sheeple overload) W. May 2, 2009, 9:02pm EDT

I hope those puppies are refrigerated. OK, I'll order a gallon or two of cocktail sauce, lol. We all pine, in some regards. Depending on the longing, it's called nothing but nostalgia, but to go beyond the forest's edge, into the pines, set your tent up and stay, that's where it gets slippery. Like an oyster sliding down the gullet. I'm afraid I've been guilty, many times.

PS - I prefer scallops ;o)

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glenn allenson May 3, 2009, 9:43pm EDT

OMIGOD what HAPPENED?? I just got a summons to Guppy Supieror Court, I'm being sued for fraud, they say their Saint Guppy Ron turned up at some picnic wearing an ant get-up, sales of the CD and finstickers have fallen to zilch...

I'm...RUINED!! ARRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Where's my Kitty, I need therapy....

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Ron (in complete sheeple overload) W. May 3, 2009, 10:09pm EDT

It's all about being flexible.

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glenn allenson May 4, 2009, 1:08pm EDT

I'm trying, but I'm not having much luck selling these CD's and finstickers to a bunch of FRIGGEN ANTS!!!!

Ruined.........where's my spirulina and Vitamin B-12?? KITTY!!!! HELPPPPPPPPPP!!!

Have A Wunnerful Week Ron!

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