2003sep28. More Petrified Apologies.
7 – 16 – 84Why is it when thieves go cold-footed they suddenly think they’re supposed to reform everyone else? “I’ve been there man, stealin’ the wood ... you don’t know what it’s like.”To whom it may concern:
While I was in your marvelous petrified forest a week ago, I gathered (against my conscience) five or six small chips of petrified wood.
Upon reaching your museum and reading some of your “conscience mail,” I returned to the car and returned the chips to the park ... except one little chip. I thought that having one small chip would surely not affect the park in any way.
But after leaving the park my mind cleared a bit more and I realized that one small chip – one out of the millions in the park – did make a difference. If everyone bent to their temptations – everyone would take a little, and invariably we would have less of a park to enjoy.Please, then, for yourself and future visitors to this forest, go back to your RVs and cars and return the petrified wood that you think no one will notice because someone already noticed ... yourself.
Signed,
Liza Minelli again