TheBanyanTree: [Fwd: SAY what???!!!]

[Monique Colver]

Tobie! Hi!

I've missed you.

I still have my spoon because, well, procrastination.


*We appreciate your referrals!*

Monique Colver
Colver Business Solutions
www.colverbusinesssolutions.com
monique.colver at gmail.com
(425) 772-6218

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:05 PM, paul <paul at remsset.com> wrote:

> I'm laughing here. I think I have a mail list rule set so that mail
> from non-members is vaporized. "tobie at lmi.net" is not a list member
> but is now added to the exception filter.
>
> As for anti-semitic, I had a Jewish grandfather and yeah, granmama was
> a good Catholic and kept a kosher kitchen. :)
>
> Here it is!  Incoming from Tobie!!!
>
> paul
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: SAY what???!!!
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 13:24:27 -0700
> From: Tobie Helene Shapiro <tobie at shpilchas.net>
> To: thebanyantree-owner at lists.remsset.com
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> Hey! Why was my message rejected?
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>
> I know I haven’t posted for years, but I still read all the stories.
> You mean I’ve been discontinued?!
>
> It’s because you’re anti-semitic, isn’t it!!! That’s it! You don’t
> like me because I’m a Jew. RATS!
>
> C’mon, be a dear. Post my message. I was wondering why it didn’t show
> up in the inbox. It’s about YB. Way back to Spoon days, too.
>
>
> Are you there?
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> Am I here?
>
>
> Here’s my message as I wrote it:
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> *From: *Tobie Helene Shapiro <tobie at lmi.net <mailto:tobie at lmi.net>>
> *Subject: **Re: TheBanyanTree: STARGAZR*
> *Date: *October 31, 2016 at 8:57:14 AM PDT
> *To: *"A comfortable place to meet other people and exchange your own
> *original* writings." <thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com
> <mailto:thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com>>
>
>
> Oh yes! Youngblood!
>
>
> Remember the call for donations to make a gift for Youngblood? Not
> money, no. The gift involved everyone sending in souvenir spoons
> from all over? I fashioned them onto a large poster-board and made a
> giant artwork for her which I carried on an airplane to Houston and
> presented to her in person.
>
> I was sitting in the airport looking conspicuous waiting for her to
> pick me up. It was overcast with smog. I can’t even recall the time
> of year. When she walked up to me, we both had a moment of cautious
> recognition, you know, like a blind date smoking over the population
> for the correct stranger? (the correct stranger. I’ll have to write
> that down). At the time, Youngblood was not happy about things and
> confessed feeling like a burden to everyone around her. AH BUT
> NO!!!!!!! She was a blasting flame of energy to everyone around her,
> even in her depleted state of mind.
>
> Seeing the woman after reading her prodigious brilliant spirit in
> words for so long was a deep slow thrill that I can’t explain. What I
> can explain is that their apartment was so thick with cigarette smoke
> that I had to sit outside the sliding window-doors that opened to the
> yard. I felt like such a petty Berkeleyite and I suppose I still am.
> But they both understood and we conversed through the doors.
>
> I wish I could find her last email to me. I know it’s here someplace
> on this mac, hiding among other less important stuff. At the point
> that she wrote it she told me that she was barely capable of writing
> anymore because her mind was so woven crazy from the brain tumor. But
> it was one of the most eloquent woven crazy writing I’d ever gotten
> from her. One phrase referred to the chronic grass smoking and was
> worded like this:
>
> ……….. purling roll joints …………
>
> I’ll have to look for it harder and report back. It does the heart
> good to hear that her ashes were distributed so widely and so
> lovingly. What a quirky prophet she was.
>
> Tobie
> ever in Berkeley
> rarely elsewhere
> lacking the ticket
> the time
> too much tethered
> but grinning
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> Keep your eye out and note everything you say and everything you do,
> and ABSOLUTELY everything you put in writing, because you never know
> when someone will come after you. And no matter what you know you
> did, said or meant, they may prove you wrong in a court of law. And
> that's the only truth that matters. THS 2014
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> Tobie Shapiro
> mailto:tobie at shpilchas.net
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