For instance…
and then, there is this about him, too! Umm, hmm…. and Sinatra too, but we’ll get there next time… (John McCain is totally glam, and totally an American, especially if you read his wonderful book “Faith of my Fathers”) He represents all that is best about American men, in their hearts…his book was a breath of relief and joy to me, when I read it.
I found a little interview about him over here, that just endeared him to me even further when I read about some of his favorite things. It’s by a reporter who traveled on his bus in the year 2000.
I loved everything he said! Truly! Especially the trees he loves. They are part of the Western landscape, and part of the largesse of the Western attitude en generale, and mindset. He loves the simplest things in life, and Blackberry ice cream! Now that is different!
For instance, these are two of his favorite trees. They are very, very beautiful trees. The cottonwood has heart shaped leaves that shimmer in the light and dance on the wind. They turn yellow in the fall, and they have these giant puffy balls of cotton all over them which fly far and wide. In the winter they are stark against the sky, and they always promise a return of spring.
This is how beautiful they look in the fall!
The Sycamore is a very romantic tree. Here is a Rossetti image of that, to show you how utterly poetic the tree itself is. It’s a tree that is built to survive anything. In the West, if they are burned, they re-sprout from the root — their roots are ancient, and they live for hundreds of years…
Their leaves look like this, and you can read about them from Stanford here.
They look like this picture below, from a distance, and you can see a picture of their leaves and bark here. We tend to revere our trees in the West…
And our American heroes. Here is the latest read on him by the Guardian out of England. I see the maverick spirit, and the rogue. It’s what is inside a candidate’s heart that matters to me. He has a really fabulous face, too. I loved the art. Oh, and, I like the fact he has a temper, or wouldn’t risk bringing something to blows when it comes to a potential bad guy. I love that about him, and no bad press is going to change my mind, now. He is the sort of man a puma adores. It’s the principles, and the heroics. Great seals are given to those who are deserving of them in this country.
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