Ok…I could have written about being a bit sad today. Yesterday’s events only got worse. Thanks to those of you who responded. I am keeping a journal of events and trying to take care of myself. One issue is that all salaried employees are on year-to-year contracts and mine is up June 30 so they can, in effect, do whatever they want after that. We’ll see by April when the new contracts come out.

Ok…Ents (I have A Guide to Middle Earth calendar on my desk). I’m a geek girl. I’ve read the Tolkein books (yes, even Silmarillion) several times throughout my life and I have to say that my favorite characters have always been the Ents.

I love plants with a passion (as I’ve stated in previous blogs). There is something about a tree-herder that looks like a tree and has a “tree language.” I’m fascinated by that. I mean, really, I talk to my plants and, in their own way, they talk back (they stay alive…heh!).

My calendar says “Ents were tree-herders, perhaps the oldest speaking race in Middle-earth. Created sometime early in the morning of the world, the nature of the Ents was closely connected with that of the trees they protected and guarded.” How cool is that? What kind of a mind would come up with an early environmental protector and guardian of trees?

I think that Jackson did a phenomenal job of portraying them in The Two Towers. I was moved by the power of the Ents. I loved how there was a willow and an oak and so many other representatives of our flora brethren.

Yep…I’m completely geeky. I’m getting it now. But I’m also making myself laugh…which is desperately needed.

What I wouldn’t give to go live among the Ents right now.