I'm with ya, bug. I am a nature person, but by a series of life choices which I often regret, I live in the middle of the polluted, congested, concrete jungle. I constantly seek what nature there is around me. There was a little tree off to one side of the grocery store parking lot that I would always park under even though the kids and I had to walk farther. One spring, doves nested there and we would feed them bread that we bought at the store. The store decided they needed a drive through pharmacy, so they tore down the tree and poured more concrete. When it was all done, I realized that the way it was built they could have left the tree and I literally cried. I was probably on the rag, but still it was the fact there are too few who respect nature. And I felt as if a little part of me and my kids' life had been torn down for no real reason. Books are also sacred to me and I go stark raving mad when a movie has a character do something that they would never have done in the book!! -- Cindy's Cottage

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Date Posted: 09:24:15 09/21/07 Fri
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susiej
Subject: I'm with ya, bug. I am a nature person, but by a series of life choices which I often regret, I live in the middle of the polluted, congested, concrete jungle. I constantly seek what nature there is around me. There was a little tree off to one side of the grocery store parking lot that I would always park under even though the kids and I had to walk farther. One spring, doves nested there and we would feed them bread that we bought at the store. The store decided they needed a drive through pharmacy, so they tore down the tree and poured more concrete. When it was all done, I realized that the way it was built they could have left the tree and I literally cried. I was probably on the rag, but still it was the fact there are too few who respect nature. And I felt as if a little part of me and my kids' life had been torn down for no real reason. Books are also sacred to me and I go stark raving mad when a movie has a character do something that they would never have done in the book!!
In reply to: bug 's message, "I went through last night and skimmed through to be prepared for the next questions. (something I haven't been doing :-0) I am ready!! Ok, Sacred. For me it is the Earth. Just that simple. Not on the religious level, or any organized ritual, just being on the earth. Whether it is walking, working, just laying around, but being ON the earth itself. Even dancing is more fun outside, ON the earth. It is that connection that makes it sacred and whole for me. I could do without all these modern things. Sure, at first I would miss em, as I have become used to having em, things like tv, computer, ect, and they seem necessary in todays times, just simply to keep in touch with the rest of the world and what is going on, the computer for business,,,, but the reality is, I could do without em. They do not dictate who I am, as the earth does. Great question." on 07:30:45 09/21/07 Fri

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I had to laugh when I read your last sentence, susie, because I've been known to actually get up and leave in disgust when a show/movie takes way too many liberties with character and plot derived from a book. I gave up on the formerly excellent Anne of Green Gables series with Megan Follows as well as Little House on the Prairie when both went totally off the rails (IMHO). (NT) -- Carla, 11:35:35 09/21/07 Fri
- Not just your opinion girl- that last movie- what the hell? Gilbert goes off to war? That just wasn't right. I'm a purist when it comes to L.M. Montgomery's work, it's pretty much perfection and they shouldn't mess with that. The first movie was fantastic though. I never could watch the 'Emily' series because that was treading on sacred ground and I didn't want to see what they had done to my beloved Emily, Ilse, Teddy and Perry. (NT) -- celtgirl, 21:59:19 09/21/07 Fri

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