[PARKFAN]

You are right and I am asking everyone not to do this. Hate giving up such a powerful symbol of unity across the nation but maybe you guys can think of a better one.

I am sending a big hunk of cloth for signatures (paper rips and munches up) of supporters. That will help in the symbolism department.

Give me some ideas--I know there is something out there that would really give this convoy a special signature! Think hard and post your ideas. I need help here! We can change the nation with this movement if we can engage the public somehow.

[Carry_Okie]

To me, the most powerful metaphor we have is that land needs people to care for it in perpetuity; that nature, by itself, cares not a whit if the planet is sterile. Man has always been, and always will be an indispensible element of the living web.

So, we ask the landowners how we can help and what they need. We go to Florida to weed, to prune, to garden the land that God gave us. If you take tools, please be certain that they are new, or decontaminated, or perhaps intend them as a gift. Phytophthora is that serious a problem.

Anything we would do would be transitory, it is true, and that is as it should be. The need of the land to be loved is an ongoing thing to be passed on to those who follow.

Mark