Cutting it down is the only known cure for a monster wreaking chaos 15 feet outside your front door.Ī pal around the corner from me has a redwood planted 65 years ago by his father. Because that’s what happens, and even elderly hippies are blessed with occasional flashes of practicality and intelligence. This is increasingly the option taken and frankly it’s the right thing to do with a 70-year old redwood heaving up water lines, sidewalks, driveways and foundations. Therein lies the problem.Īnd the problem persists until the redwood trees is cut down and lies dead in the yard. “Lawn” is a flexible term here because a fat redwood tree conquers and destroys lawns along with everything else in, and under, a front yard. Several of my friends, all marinated long ago in the hippie faith, have recently been confronted with the reality of a giant redwood tree in their fashionable west side Ukiah front lawn. This is all a preamble to the state of redwoods today in the minds of elderly hippies who have been thrust into custodial roles for the woody beasts. A sycamore was never deemed “ancient” or “old growth” or suffered a halfwit climbing up and living in it for six months to demonstrate love for a fragile planet.
Apple, peach and palm trees apparently are born to bulldoze so we can put up parking lots.ĭoes God or Mother Nature only care about the biggest, tallest, strongest of its creatures and to hell with the rest? But hippies never gathered in big circles holding hands and chanting to protect a cluster of sycamore trees.
So they became holy totems in ways other trees were not, as if other trees didn’t exist.
#JOINING HANDS AROUND REDWOOD TREE FULL#
Redwoods were thought to be full of mystical things like good vibes, spotted owls and Mother Earth’s all-benevolent embrace. Hippies could bong out, listen to the Grateful Dead for a few weeks at a time and believe they were communing with something larger than themselves, and they probably were. Marijuana provided a sacrament, a vehicle to visions and alternate realities. They came up with two (three if you include Bob Dylan): (A) Marijuana, and (B) Redwood trees. Forty or fifty years ago Northern California hippies, having abandoned God, church, religion, the Bible and most other civilizing influences, began rummaging around for new spiritual targets to believe in.
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