[palo verde]

hi chrissie
Lynn's post 'bout her son's experiences while traveling in the East
reminded me I read a book by a Tibetan lama
where he said in Tibet when he was a child
animal rights was part of the law there
this meant the animal (I forget donkey, burro, what?)
which they would load up to carry their stuff and them
had one day off a week
when they didn't have to work
he said the animal had a sense of humor
that often the Tibetans would forgot it was his day off
and they would spend 3 hours loading everything on him
then he would lie down
and they would remember it was his day off
so they had to unload everything
Love, Palo

[andysandmikesmom]

The animals they were loading were probably the yaks, which are the mainstay of pack animals up in the Himalayas...my son said they were rather skittish animals, and trusted mainly their herders or sherpas...my son took lots and lots of pictures of them, because he found them to be really endearing animals...