... and yet I'm not American.

i was born in america, but just barely. english was not my first language, yet i got a full academic scholarship based on my verbal and math exam results, verbal being the higher of the two. i still think in spanish half the time, though i never hear it anymore.

i too am a leaf without a home, and that's okay.

lets make a cardboard shantytown and celebrate our homelessness phil!

I've always considered myself to be much more of a bush.
Maybe with highly toxic yet prettily colored berries growing off it.

you bastard. You killed Richard and Emmeline Lestrange.

How could you.

I don't know who those people are but they probably deserved it.

Dude.
Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins.
Blue Lagoon.
Get it together.

Isn't there some movie about a guy that has no roots and spends his entire life on a boat, never setting foot on dry land and he plays the piano? I think i remember seeing it in some channels movie listing descriptions the other day. Maybe with Jude Law?
And, no, it wasn't Waterworld...

i vaguely remember seeing something about that nate. im too groggy to make research, but cheers if someone finds a title.

it might have been something as obvious as Man Without a Country, i dunno. I just remember thinking it sounded like a cool idea. Even still I didn't watch it though.

Something I've always wondered is, like, what language do deaf people think in.

cheers ludwig!

ive got to add that to my rental queue.

hey, i was born in this country, on naval air space, yet i dont have a home of origin either. when people ask where i'm from, they get a fucking dissertation. i usually lie to make it easier. moved around a lot as a kid, and have moved around a lot as an adult. but i know where i live. i even bought a house with my woman. though, i'm not ready to be a daddy so if it winds up that she is pregnant, i'll probably leave her in the morning. and then i wont even have a home. anyrate, back to the focus. dont concern yourself so much with where youre from but pay more active attention to where youre going. that i think is more important that being a leaf in the mud.

wtf? Use a quote button!

The bit about him leaving her in the morning? I think that was done more tongue-in-cheek then serious.
And even if it was, I doubt he'd do it in the morning, he'd at least wait a week or two and then leave.

damn, sixdot. you left your sense of humor somewheres. lets all scour about and find it

hell awwwe we're getting married in october, silly.

i still heart you, tobii!!

and timberly hit it pretty good, that line was clever haha if not graphic and harsh

we redid the bathroom (yet, again) the other day and listened to that weezy album most of the day

Waterworld

Even though he shot himself like a retard?

baby, don't you know I'm just human, and I've got thoughts like any other one, and sometimes I find myself...oh lord, regretting, some foolish thing, some foolish thing I've done

but I'm just a soul whose intentions are good, oh lord! please don't let me be misunderstoodddd

But the names these people give all their leaves don't really exist. Everyone's just a leaf, the tree is insignificant because we've all fallen from it. Sure, it determines shape and texture and such, but us leaves have free will and can edit the above.

As far as leaves go, about all they've got is shape and texture. Oh, also, genetic material which forever identifies them as coming from a certain tree. Almost forgot about that.

If you wanna be that specific, then the leaf analogy doesn't hold up to begin with.

It's all about the leaf's journey, falling from the tree, going where the wind blows it, it's shape and texture guiding it somewhat in it's descent, till the leaf reaches it's ultimate conclusion.
No matter how high the tree, the fall is brief. Life is short.

Whether life is long or short is subjective (and this is from an objectivist). It isn't like one has a concept of long life (since the limit's around 80) and no concept of short life (since dead men have no opinions).

Dead men have no opinions?!?! How many of those books of your were written by dead men?!

Check the tense. Have =/= had.

i'm just going to take this very literally, and say, although i do not know what type of tree i came from, if i were a leaf, i would be this leaf:

it fell from somewhere and got caught in my hair, and i have saved it forever.

This thread reminds me of the time our guidance counselor in middle-school took me and 4 other kids for a "meeting" in his office. They never told us why we were chosen or what they thought our problem was. But, from the kids chosen, it was pretty clear that they had selected those who seemed to be the biggest misfits or the most socially inept of the bunch. As we began our talk, he asked us to think of what kind of tree we would be if we were a tree. So, this slightly effeminate kid immediately tells the circle that he would be an azalea. The guidance counselor erupts into laughter and you could see azalea boy's shoulders slump. You just knew that the counselor had done more damage to this kids self-esteem in an instant than all the bullies ever had... Asshole.

Anyway, fuck a leaf. I'm a maple tree - big and sweet.

i'd be an oak. no question.