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Date: | Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:21:41 -0400 |
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Last night I got a call from the Wilderness Society. We'd made a modest
donation last year. The guy on the phone asked if they could count on us to
make a $50 donation again this year. I told him I wasn't sure about that
right now. He assured me *Your donation of $50 will protect 60 million
acres of wilderness.* Wow! That's a lot of acreage!! He told me they'd be
sending something in the mail this week.
I got of the phone and told Don, who wondered what someone was trying to
sell me :))! When I told him, he said *that's not bad. $50 and we protect
60 MILLION ACRES???!!* I replied, *I wish it was so easy!!!!* :))
We wondered if we gave them $100 if that would protect 120 million acres.
Then, smart Don said *Did you ask if we could live on it??? That's a really
decent rent!!!* ;-) I said *Great idea! I didn't think of that!! ;-)) We
could more easily protect it if we lived on it. Hey, we could invite all
our friends too--all the Paleo folks!!!* We thought of a bunch of you guys
& gals!! Brilliant idea!! Hey, we could hunt, fish, harvest fruit (okay,
maybe plant some fruit trees and....... maybe if a whole bunch of us gave
them money we could.....
(there was more but that was the gist of it!!) That was the most fun we had
from a phone solicitation!!! ;-))
Rachel
(who has a great imagination!!)
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