think.hapi.thots

by Shel Silverstein

‘Once there was a tree…and she loved a little boy.’

A tree starts out as a leafy playground, shade provider, and apple bearer for a rambunctious little boy. Making the boy happy makes the tree happy, but with time it becomes more challenging for the generous tree to meet his needs.

When he asks for money, she suggests that he sell her apples.
When he asks for a house, she offers her branches for lumber.
When the boy is old, too old and sad to play in the tree, he asks the tree for a boat. She suggests that he cut her down to a stump so he can craft a boat out of her trunk. He unthinkingly does it.

‘And then the tree was happy… but not really.’

When there’s nothing left of her, the boy returns again as an old man, needing a quiet place to sit and rest. The stump offers up her services, and he sits on it.

‘And the tree was happy.’

review extracted from amazon.com

… 1 of my favourite books …

The house that I’ve been staying since 6 yrs old would be torn down today…. so many things that mom kept and now the apt is full of things. Bunny was given away, koi are all kept with fish farm (at a price)…. i threw all my curtin works coz they are so ugly.

Anyways, see who decided to pop into my postbox… Hee hee… McDull… So surprised Cec mailed him to me. Now he can keep Luke companied. Luke was found stashed wif all other Ty beanies in a Toyogo box. Bought them when they were in the rage. He has this blur look lah… so decided to let him out. The rest were adopted by Emma and Calvin.

The facial session in school was quite ok but the students were as kan cheong as we were. The body massage was not very good though. Oh, I’ve finally fininshed my Kenko massage package.