The Tree Is Mine
November 18, 2005
- I have a new office.
- This is the view from my new office.
- There is a small tree outside my office window.
- If there was an office window in the building directly across from me, I would have to share the tree with the person in that office.
- There is no office window in the building directly across from me.
- The tree is mine.
Comments
Pam
Hey! I know where this window/tree is! Does that mean I own shares in the tree?
Kate
Good question, Pam. Had I KNOWN that there might be a TREE in question I would have held onto my shares of it, perhaps. DAMN my poor timing.
Kate
Now this has me reminiscing. Years ago, when I worked up in the University of Utah Research Park for a genetic research group (and NO we didn’t clone anyone, which is the first thing people always said when I told them where I worked) I had a wonderful, huge window that looked straight up into the foothills, with a view of the shoreline trail and Red Butte Gardens. Way, way up on top of one of the hills there were three trees, standing all alone, in a wee bunch with a seat next to them. They almost looked Seussian, as though they were three spherical leaf canopies attached to the same trunk. I LOVED those trees. They were MY trees. And as far as the fact that a trillion people could see them and any Joe Public dope could visit them, they were MY TREES.
I, in fact, purposely never went to see them up close. I thought I might be disappointed in them, somehow, and they brought me such joy and comfort every day just the way they were - distant and whimsical.
HANG ON TO YOUR TREE!
Pam
Kate: I would like to purchase 300 shares of your trees also.
jenny
What a lovely little tree! I wonder…
Maybe that tree really is YOUR tree. Maybe each leaf that falls from the tree symbolizes the passage of time and lost opportunities. With each falling leaf, your life-blood ebbs away. When the tree is naked, you will DIE! (*Mwah, hah, hah!*)
Kate
You’re on, Pam, if someone can tell me whether or not I still OWN those trees even though I’ve not worked at Genetic Research for a number of years. I’m SO ignorant with stocks and such. You should have seen the games I played (and played is the absolutely correct term) with my 401k distributions - “Small Foreign Growth Stocks with Feathers on Tuesday” - yup, sounds fun - make that 20% rather than 10%.
It’s all moot now. That money is GONE - LONG gone git along lil’ doggies (isn’t that the technical stocks and bonds technical term?). My current retirement plan is based on a the proceeds of an enormous yard sale (as I have so much STUFF).
brent
Freud clearly focused on the wrong stuff. He should have paid a lot more attention to tree envy.
grettir
Jenny, the tree lost its last leaf in yesterday’s storm…and this morning I woke up bald!
jenny
Don’t worry–it will all grow back next spring.