barking up the wrong tree

when your blog thinks its a book

Hey buddy…

What?

Ask me if I’m a tree?

Are you a tree?

No. I’m a book. Trees aspire to be like me.

You’re not a book You’re a blog post that aspires to be a book one day.

How right you are. We all have a dream. Rooted in our reality while reaching for the sun. You know what that other book¹ says about trees?

Given the fact that the other book won’t let me touch it, I have no idea what it says.

The Book of Wrong Answers seems to be clueless at times.

Well, It says that the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. What a load of coulda shoulda woulda eh? What a pile of crap. It says other drivel about trees too. Check this one out

From The Book of Right Answers Chapter Three Thousand four hundred and thirteen:

Be like a tree

Stay grounded

Connect with your roots

Turn over a new leaf

Bend before you break

Enjoy your unique, natural beauty

Keep growing.

Let me go through why all of these are really really fin ideas for an ordinary fool. These ideas won’t work for you.

Stay grounded? That’s exactly wh…