Posted on 08/09/2007 8:12:38 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
MIAMI -- This graying hippie makes the nightly, winding climb 18 feet to her cozy bedroom. She wakes to roosters' crows and the scents of dewy soil. Over breakfast, her view is a jungle of towering trees, no hint of concrete civilization.
Shawnee Chasser lives in a treehouse above a secret garden in the middle of Miami. For 15 years, she has lived atop the 1.5-acre nirvana of green trees and farm animals behind a row of houses 10 minutes from downtown.
Neighbors come for potlucks, drum circles and weekly volleyball games. Tenants who rent the extra bedrooms hang out in the open kitchen. It is exactly the peaceful paradise Chasser envisioned when her brother and others built the three-story treehouse months before Hurricane Andrew devastated the area in 1992.
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She must have electricity or she wouldn’t have my space. Or if she does it in the library, wouldn’t she be upset if the whole world lived like her and she was suddenly unable to get a huge supply of fresh fruit, the latest in medical care newspapaers from across the globeand others to criticize because she could only get as far as she walked and might die for lack of clean water?
“Exactly what trouble has this lady been?”
Probably none...yet. But now the developers will want her piece of land and it will be taken away...for the good of the people.
Goats, B.O./fecal aroma to kill a horse, no toilets, no shower/tub, no running water, roaches the size of mice (”palmetto bugs”), endless West Nile carrying mosquitos, no air conditioning, ferocious lightning, no Internet, ugly hairy hippies....
This is actually my vision of Hell.
I can see it now: Condos starting at $1,000,000 in a “nirvana of green trees... 10 minutes from downtown.”
” Anyway, I don’t care to reason.”
Obviously not.
Is that the guy who sings “I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?”
This is how the Liberals want all of us to live, either tree house or mud huts, and walking everywhere. They of course will still have mansions ala Gore and Pelosi and Feinstein and Edwards... and private jets.... and SUVs
I think back in the 1960s when the liberals took over.
The next hurricane will eliminate this hippy’s drum palace.
Vegetable Rights and Peace, Man!
"I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light, and of peace. When you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me.. WE ARE ONE."
Far out man......
My title: Weird, dumb and smelly old broad lives in tree above farm yard........
Me too, now all I have to figure out is which corner of the house to put my tools, my car, my 43" HDTV and stereo system, my guns, my clothes and my cat. Well, the cat's on her own......she can pick her own branch.
A Raccoon out during the day is a rabid Raccoon.
“When exactly did mental illness become celebrated in this country?”
What a damn good question. Hard to believe it was only 30 years ago that homosexuality was in the DSM-III. Taking it out was the beginning of subordination of knowledge to liberal political purposes. In todays world, rambunctious boys are drugged to make them passive in government schools, while flaming queers are encouraged to express “pride” for their behavior. Just what the hell have we come to?
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