Comments on: Living Beneath a Walnut Tree http://www.ericpeters.net/2009/11/05/living-beneath-a-walnut-tree/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:25:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob http://www.ericpeters.net/2009/11/05/living-beneath-a-walnut-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-113909 Rob Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:29:16 +0000 http://www.ericpeters.net/?p=173#comment-113909 I truly enjoy your writing style. You communicate with words that challenge me to think. And as Richard noted, there is indeed a bizarre comfort in knowing I'm not alone. Your closing line reminded me of "Bluebird" by Randall Goodgame. Bluebird, bluebird don't you fly away Bluebird, bluebird don't stay gone Your post also reminded me that I still need to send a gift I promised to send a few months ago, right after we saw you and Ben Shive play in St. Peters, MO. I'll try to get it in the mail soon. I truly enjoy your writing style. You communicate with words that challenge me to think. And as Richard noted, there is indeed a bizarre comfort in knowing I’m not alone. Your closing line reminded me of “Bluebird” by Randall Goodgame.

Bluebird, bluebird don’t you fly away
Bluebird, bluebird don’t stay gone

Your post also reminded me that I still need to send a gift I promised to send a few months ago, right after we saw you and Ben Shive play in St. Peters, MO. I’ll try to get it in the mail soon.

]]> By: Richard Okimoto http://www.ericpeters.net/2009/11/05/living-beneath-a-walnut-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-113907 Richard Okimoto Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:57:17 +0000 http://www.ericpeters.net/?p=173#comment-113907 Eric, Great post, I can relate and I am encouraged. Not only by your honest and humble recognition of your present state (and the bizarre comfort that comes in knowing that I'm not the only one that feels that way), but also and the clear and very confident hope that things will not always be this way. However, I must protest your science in the first paragraph. I appreciate your attempt stretch out of that literate and artistic noggin, but if you start, man, you must follow through! You correctly point out that the Black Walnut has compound leaves but then incorrectly identify the leaflets as leaves, and call a tendril what is actually the rachis of the leaf. Simple plant anatomy, son! Eric,

Great post, I can relate and I am encouraged. Not only by your honest and humble recognition of your present state (and the bizarre comfort that comes in knowing that I’m not the only one that feels that way), but also and the clear and very confident hope that things will not always be this way.

However, I must protest your science in the first paragraph. I appreciate your attempt stretch out of that literate and artistic noggin, but if you start, man, you must follow through!

You correctly point out that the Black Walnut has compound leaves but then incorrectly identify the leaflets as leaves, and call a tendril what is actually the rachis of the leaf. Simple plant anatomy, son!

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