10.08.06

Category: dribblings

if you’ve got 3 hours to kill i highly recommend you go see The Departed.

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after describing talking to Alice like talking to a Foxfire book i just had to go to the library and get one to read because those are some good reading, lemme tell ya. the homemade remedies kill me, or they would if i tried them anyway. already i’ve learned a “cure” for warts. apparently, to get rid of a wart all you have to do is sell the wart for a penny and then throw the penny away.

the country mountain people have a cure for everything. usually the cure will involve making a tea of some sort and then adding turpentine to it. most of their cures actually seem to be poision. and so it’s a wonderment to me that these people live to be 97. i mean, honestly, you drink stuff with turpentine in it on a regular basis…and yet you die from typhoid fever? i don’t see how any organism could live in your bloodstream….when it’s poison!

anyway, everyone should at least read one of the Foxfire books. it should be mandatory reading. they are chock full of information and charm. i wish i could drive over there and meet those people and talk to them and learn from them and just soak up their crazy backwoods knowledge. i mean, just their knowledge of plants and trees is amazing. i realized the other day that i have no idea what a birch tree looks like. i can recognize an oak leaf and a pine needle. that’s it. oh, and a maple leaf, sure. but these people know about trees, like actual trees and roots and things. it’s amazing to me.

of course, we all know i’m easily amazed.

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