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Graying hippie lives in treehouse in urban Miami neighborhood
AP ^
| August 9, 2007
| KELLI KENNEDY
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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: hippie; hippies; miami
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
There was a Beavis & Butthead episode in which the hippie teacher Van Dresen and his “colleagues” went into the woods to bang on drums. It’s all downhill from there.
To: printhead
The
South Park episode where a character voiced by Jennifer Anniston goes to the Rain Forest is one of the best:
To: stuartcr
Exactly what trouble has this lady been?
Would your question be the same if she were a neo-Nazi living in a treehouse that was covered in swastikas? I would bet not. The idea of the hippie being a harmless eccentric is complete bunk. We all know that hippies, as much as they may claim to treasure love, togetherness, and tolerance, are the most virulent and violent people when it comes to political ideology. She and others like her would vote in officials that would have Christians and other assorted conservatives crucified in a heartbeat if they could, and they would feel completely justified in doing so because conservatives are "mean-spirited".
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posted on
08/09/2007 2:25:17 PM PDT
by
fr_freak
To: tgslTakoma
One good lightning strike...
64
posted on
08/09/2007 2:30:24 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Ron Paul put the cuckoo in Cocoa Puffs)
To: reagan_fanatic
Do you realize how high she has to be all the time, to live in Miami without air conditioning?
65
posted on
08/09/2007 2:34:51 PM PDT
by
Vision
("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
To: Vision
She wouldn’t need drugs for that - the aroma from her pits would probably be enough to stone a rhinoceros.
66
posted on
08/09/2007 2:40:57 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
She must be in Coconut Grove.
The tree house is her business, but farm animals??
That is against city codes.
67
posted on
08/09/2007 3:01:46 PM PDT
by
Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Oh wow man. It's the Dennis Kucinich national headquarters man...
![](http://a722.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/10/l_eaad8cf1115b3d34482f98807c1f34c9.jpg)
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posted on
08/09/2007 5:47:00 PM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
To: B-Chan; pandoraou812
Some of the comments are interesting considering that this is a forum where conservatives espouse freedom and property. How could anyone feel threatened by this woman who is obviously connected to nature, helps others and lives as she wants? From what I've read, it is the reporter who called her a hippie; where does she call herself a hippie?
How did people in America live only 150 years ago? Obviously some posters have never been to the bush to see how some Alaskans live.
I think living in a tree house is a wonderful, almost magical experience; I happen to live in one for part of the year. I wish it could be year round. She's very fortunate. She is doing good works. The life she lives speaks for itself. My only admonition, be the person who you are. In the end, only kindness matters.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:10:41 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
To: Jaysun
"But I'm sure she helps spread the idiotic hippie idea of irresponsibility." How exactly are you sure? Where is your proof and documentation. I'd like to know what you know.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:13:45 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
[cue Jackyl’s “The Lumberjack”]
71
posted on
08/09/2007 8:13:47 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
("I see stupid people. They're everywhere....They don't even know that they're dumb.")
To: RichInOC
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
73
posted on
08/09/2007 8:23:14 PM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(I will always love you, Flyer.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Just 1.5 acres... good grief... and they claim they can’t see concrete? I just don’t believe it.
74
posted on
08/09/2007 8:28:13 PM PDT
by
LowOiL
(Yeah, I'm voting Conservative... how conservative... well Duncan Hunter conservative..)
To: Flyer; humblegunner; Allegra; TheMom; Xenalyte; thackney; Eaker; stevie_d_64; TXBSAFH; ...
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:35:12 PM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(I will always love you, Flyer.)
To: Daffynition
How exactly are you sure? Where is your proof and documentation. I'd like to know what you know.
I said that tongue in cheek.
In all seriousness, I hate hippies. I make no apologies for this.
76
posted on
08/09/2007 8:55:24 PM PDT
by
Jaysun
(It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Still my favorite SP episode:
[driving through San Jose, Costa Rica]
Eric Cartman: Oh my God, it smells like ass out here.
Miss Stevens: All right, that does it. Eric Cartman, you respect other cultures this instant.
Eric Cartman: I wasn’t saying anything about their culture, I was just saying their city smells like ass.
Miss Stevens: You may think that making fun of third-world countries is funny but let me...
Eric Cartman: I don’t think it’s funny. This place is overcrowded, smelly and poor. That’s not funny, that sucks.
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posted on
08/09/2007 9:00:42 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: Jaysun
I wouldn’t have a problem with hippies if they kept to themselves (especially downwind). However, as long as they insist on imposing their brand of Communism on the rest of us, then it means war as far as I’m concerned.
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posted on
08/09/2007 9:01:08 PM PDT
by
Windcatcher
(Earth to libs: MARXISM DOESN'T SELL HERE. Try somewhere else.)
To: dfwgator
The spoof of Hooters, called "Raisins," is right up there, too.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5c/714_image_19.jpg/200px-714_image_19.jpg)
Here is a transcript to the Rainforest episode. Cartman's response of "Yeah, pretty much" is so funny.
http://www.spscriptorium.com/ScriptGuideIndex.htm
To: Jaysun
"...I hate hippies."What we think about another, we think about ourselves. Good luck with that "hate" thing. Do you call yourself a Christian?
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posted on
08/10/2007 1:58:29 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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