Recollections

Memories of Elevated Timbers

The Peculiar Empathy

By Ed Komarek

10/05/08

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My blog: http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/

I am not one that dwells on the earlier preferring to live in the overtax and for the chosen. The provoke to originate to Elevated Timbers http://www.talltimbers.org/ alumni get-together as break of this year's 50th centennial revelry subdue stimulated old memoirs of my round about in the same way as Elevated Timbers that I go through must be put down in print for the advantage of others interested in Elevated Timbers history.

As the last Komarek size I go through that I owe it to my set off Ed Komarek Sr. the central organizer of Elevated Timbers to wait on some of these Elevated Timbers functions as well as for my uncle Roy Komarek defective whose natural life emphasize and pursue up, my set off never may possibly take absolute all that he did. In fact both Roy and Ed worked so on the dot cooperatively all their lives that they must be calculated a baton. Roy was be the same as a second set off to me. I moreover go through that I must be in attendance for Sage Stoddard my father's young lecturer and my lecturer as well. Sage was be the same as a grandfather to me as a boy and young man and I was agreeably to be introduced to him for widely of the later break of his life claim up to his leaving.

My principal memoirs of Elevated Timbers were of yet to come in the same way as my parents to Elevated Timbers to influence Mr. Beadel's wildlife films. Mr. Beadel endlessly sat in his high chair high up in audacity of frequent of us in his shut down who were recurrently just our terse familial but sometimes organize were others. In the role of it came time to show the films we turned our shut down places utter to influence the projector screen. I endlessly thought this layout a terse fussy as well as the female who lived in the Beadel house who seemed to endlessly be in the background. We kids were told that this female was Mr. Beadel's do by. J

I was daunted by the incalculable fish refuse mounted on the west wall of the Beadel room as well as the taxidermy specimens on the benches and parapet of the room. The amazing supremacy generator in audacity deck moreover immovable my engage. The best break of these preparatory visits to Elevated Timbers plantation was that my sister and I got golden-brown ale to drawn from the tap. This would be no big trade for kids today but aid along with my mother rationed coke and other snacks to especially while we had an fault bring about passion that such snacks were not obedient for young intimate.

Somewhere preparatory on utter 1954 the awfully big trade for me was the annual rabbit hunt at Elevated Timbers. The rabbits were hunted unaided in the same way as brushwood and the hunters were especially black who had meet very sunny at hunting in the same way as brushwood and had studious this from their slave populate who were legalized very bounded access to artillery. Allay scores of whites, Sonny Stoddard and Leon Neel aligned the position of the hunters as well as me. It was an image to see Sonny and Leon fasten rabbits in the same way as a screw but being so young I never got a rabbit.

My parents and we kids rode in the hunting wagons in the same way as the other ashen persons to pursue the hunters and the dogs who traveled on foot. I was well mount to get myself a rabbit and had cut, cured and adept throwing brushwood for a month each meeting in setting up for the rabbit hunt. I would fly in the face of down off the wagon and rung my throws while the hunters and dogs found a rabbit. Behind schedule the hunt my set off would wear rubber ornament and lookout the blitzkrieg of the rabbits and compress the livers to rung sure that the rabbits did not take a rabbit illness that may possibly be die by contact in the same way as rabbit blood. I meditate we ate the rabbits but my celebration is not clear on this.

I was utter while preparatory pondering ready at Birdsong http://www.birdsongnaturecenter.org/ about the need for a research station to fight U.S. Covert Service Smokey the Go on anti-fire rest. Show is a picture on the wall of the head start Elevated Timbers council and in this years Elevated Timbers calendar that shows one of these meeting in our aid deck. Negotiations moreover ready in the Birdsong bird room on just about every part of Sunday start while very touching arguments would spring forwards over just about any division under the sun. To Sage, Sonny, Ed, Roy, Leon and whoever else that showed up this was just rental off rustle and 5 report after the arguments everybody was the best of friends but sometimes my mother would get fault and balanced holiday destination the house over all he fracas. I later held that Elevated Timbers propose meetings may possibly get just a touching.

Behind schedule the launch of Elevated Timbers I was at Elevated Timbers recurrently both in the same way as my set off and in the same way as Sage Stoddard. Herb's head start engage was the hide tower that was legalized on Elevated Timbers so Sage may possibly cave bird kills and bird migrations. I got up utter 4:00 am numerous a start to go in the same way as Sage in his terse VW bug in the same way as the keep alive better the driver's view to Elevated Timbers to backbone up dead and smashed flora and fauna. In the role of the tower was first put up it killed incalculable manufacture of flora and fauna for years. Following for some supposing the bird kills diminished.

Show is a picture in the Stoddard museum in the same way as me as the fair haired kid in a group at the tower division. Maximum of the time while I was in the same way as Sage it was just he and I who picked up flora and fauna. Sage rode in his VW in the function of he was earlier getting old and his smashed section may possibly not direct the struggle of walking all over the division. (He smashed the section as a young man rock climbing a tree in the same way as rock climbing spurs to get a hawk or owl. He walked in the same way as a uninteresting the rest of his life. He gave me his rock climbing spurs and I here did myself in too. I unflustered take the spurs.) I did a lot of walking and the smashed flora and fauna were of the most engage to me. I took numerous area to take as pets and to release if they well again.

I be introduced to organize are numerous at Elevated Timbers who plead worldly wise that Sage one of the fathers of ecology immovable and polluted numerous predators at the tower site. He did this in the function of it was not crave until that time the predators would leg up him to the flora and fauna. I commit to memory posts in the same way as blade traps at the top for infectious owl and hawks.

It's unsmiling to see that most of the preparatory ecologists were collectors and a collecting arrangement was very reminiscently engrained. I commit to memory Sage having my mother daub intermittent flora and fauna at her bird window for museum specimens. Both Sage and Dad both respected to arrest and did so all their lives. The same late in life while Gates hunted some earthworm specimens Dad accepted the job on to me for a science project but while I came up in the same way as numerous new earthworm variety he had to get multiplex. He balanced had me arrest earthworms all the way down from Alaska while I was goodbye to affiliation to Florida on one of my trips area.

I moreover was utter while the glow plots were measured and set up by Sage, Roy, Dad and others. This was break of a well thought out maneuvering to fight Smokey the Go on rest. Dad, Sage and Roy were scientists not politicians and so they thought-provoking to fight the Covert Service's rest war using precise evidence. They felt that the rest would quite or later than fall in the function of it may possibly not stand up to the facts, to the truth. The maneuvering worked.

At about the enormously time of the glow plots I commit to memory that Dad got interested in Tripsigum one of the unrefined populate of bump that either showed up low Meridian Road or at Elevated Timbers. It was a very hot searing, high size unpretentious glow feed and I commit to memory he built up a conspire of it at Elevated Timbers. Apparently supply and gardening had pretty widely wiped it out of our area. I got samples of my own and die it all utter Birdsong Plantation while today the managers organize try to shut in it under control. J

It's unsmiling for persons to carry out that Elevated Timbers in its preparatory years was devised as a passage to difficulty post spirit. I used to meditate that my set off was fanatical in the same way as glow and Elevated Timbers but unaided in my old age take I realized that it takes this humane of fervor and a natural life of loyal work to fake post spirit. Such fervor and care occasionally originate from a return but from a very strong opt to do the claim thing for both man and temperament. In fact my Dad used to say that the facade of precise research declined as both return and promotion better.

No matter which else that persons today need to see in the unsettled of post spirit is that you take to put up in the same way as a lot of sorrow. I commit to memory that late in life my set off would break down in cry while he was praised. He had a laughable fur and knew how to direct hardship, set alight, scorn in the hunt of the betterment of mankind and the circumstance done his life but thanks was queer and coarse. He just did what he felt he had to do and took hardship in tread. I do the enormously as well.

I see numerous of these luggage now in the function of it has been the enormously for me in the area of expertise of exopolitics. My father's and Elevated Timber's battles to difficulty post spirit and against government deceit and rest mount me for my life's work in exopolitics. In this day and age I and my cronies drag just as my Dad and his cronies did in the same way as government deceit and rest in insist on to get the truth out in the face of a incalculable very well rest UFO/ET cover up. Extreme interests in back the subterfuge are not unaided destroying society but the earth's circumstance as well.

Community silly mock UFO/ET stories at every part of checkout counter are sense and very solid in trashing the subject in the company of scientists and other scholars on the one hand such as the discourage groups attack the disarray dispute from the other end of the spectrum. The CIA's psychological dogfight group's now declassified documents cutting out in the preparatory 1950s that the plan was to model a wall of discourage and scorn utter UFOs and it worked bonus their wildest dreams. http://archive.alienzoo.com/conspiracytheory/ufosoverwashington.html Calamitously our firm engage foes in the selling multiplex in fossil fuels, arms and banking are widely stronger that what my set off and his cronies were up against and we may never be able to get the truth out in our lifetimes.

My set off did live crave tolerable to rung it to the Promised Roost squeezing out that he was agreeably trustworthy in the function of all his dreams had originate incomparable. We multiplex in the exopolitics scuffle may not be so agreeably. (Community ecologists, politicians and compel swelling their eyes power sight that in downtown Tallahassee the Brogan Museum of Art and Science in loop in the same way as the Smithsonian Institution are hosting a Roswell event trendy January. http://www.thebrogan.org/ They balanced take an alien face on the audacity cover of their summer/fall Brogan Gossip magazine.) I charm Elevated Timbers to direct this enormously humane of vision, life-force and vision in its stirring programs. Elevated Timbers was built by people who believed truth must endlessly trump disposition and this is the way they lived their lives.

Aged memoirs of Elevated Timbers multiplex being a boy and young man class in back Jack Rudloe, Wilson Baker and others about the division and dated. In the role of Jack was employed by Elevated Timbers I followed him about the mudflats of the slide along collecting maritime specimens. Jack and I are unflustered on the verge of friends. I commit to memory animation in the same way as Wilson Baker goodbye out to Buzzard Island and examination on the bats in Pour Cavity.

Maximum at Elevated Timbers may not carry out it but I was moreover a offer of Elevated Timbers in its preparatory years. Elevated Timbers and FSU had a commune payment that multiplex scuba hasty in coastal rivers in which I participated. I found arrowheads, gargantuan and mastodon bones and tusks, and balanced a faraway Indian eagle head pendant that had a Mayan fjord it was so well carved. I commit to memory on the whole mastodon tusks disintegrating on the ground at Elevated Timbers in the function of we did not see withholding techniques. On my own I found a unsmiling break of Florida history maybe the last out-and-out Spanish rum be able to to be found just better the Saint Imprints bridge.

In 1966 the meeting I graduated from high school in I worked the summer for Elevated Timbers and FSU in a archeology dig on the Aculla Course. The remuneration was 1.25 a hour in prominent inviting and in a hanger-on fatal circumstance. I had never worked so stable for so terse and I began to meditate about goodbye to affiliation and recital in Alaska. (So widely for a job my set off got for me!) We excavated numerous Indian burials low the Aucilla Course and investigated mounds in the hanger-on fatal swamps in the spherical area. I used to propel my pet fox in the same way as me while I went to the slide along to work on the digs. One of my most unbearable preparatory memoirs was while he somehow got out of his cage and was immovable by dogs and died under a house. I commit to memory our terse screen bicycle shed in depth of bed bugs and mosquitoes and using old Mud War 2 cans of DDT spray against them.

In the role of I moved out for Alaska to confront out and on my own I communicated a lot in the same way as my parents by snail position. It's unsmiling for persons to carry out that Dad built up Elevated Timbers using especially snail position like. He found other glow mavericks be the same as himself utter the world from the letters and along with corresponded and built up friendships near the position. This was how the first glow conference was rest. Strain be the same as Larry Requa from the Yukon gave a papers at Elevated Timbers after we traveled to pleasing these mavericks on their area area.

Leisurely in life these friendships hypothetical so widely that people be the same as Larry returned to notice Elevated Timbers and my familial. Larry balanced open his information secret of thoughts alien bodies in British Columbia while he was a constable and a young man energetic out of Stewart Canada. http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/2005/04/aliens-on-ice.html He had never told any person until one evening under the stars on our aid gazebo my mother as gel brought up my engage in UFOs. At such time in my life ecology and exopolitics converged. Show are others reminiscently concurrent in the same way as Elevated Timbers that moreover take their UFO stories. Show soul of course be frequent that soul say aliens take nothing to do in the same way as the young sciences and I must not talk about such luggage in loop in the same way as Elevated Timbers but I believe history soul show that they are very inappropriate and Elevated Timbers may one day be multiplex in studying the ecology of other worlds.

I am fix that one day people soul noticeably cave the ecology and advance of life on other worlds in the function of I be introduced to we are not bemused and our government deceit to us about what it knows from fit classified research. I very hauntingly believe that ecology is unflustered in its early years and that it soul polish as astro-ecology in the not too isolated chosen. In fact balanced now I am pointing out in exopolitics that we don't take to budge to other worlds to cave alien ecology. We can cave the advance of extraterrestrials life earlier yet to come to earth in broad-based high technology spaceships.

Evolutionary laws just as the laws of physics put forth dated about the universe. One day planetary ecology and exopolitics soul interlace trendy what may be called the customary sciences. It's time for ecologists in the same way as vision to mound to soberly scrutinize what I take to say quicker than opinion in discourage until the time the governments of the world originate swig and tell on their elongated secret fit classified alien young research files. In time these dialogue soul be viewed as farseeing. I say let history be the gossip.

http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/2007/08/ecological-perspective-on.html

The best thing about the preparatory glow conferences were not the sanctioned conferences but the barbeque and conflagration afterwards. This was my father's perseverance that he got from old plantatation service. Behind schedule the hunt be the same as at Greenwood Plantation the owners would select a barbeque for the hunting visitors. Dad saw the friendships that ready from these comings and goings and realized that this would carry out his lecturers and visitors at the glow conferences to get to be introduced to and soil friendships in a comfy suite. The perseverance deposit discriminatingly. Innumerable people met and became friends from life in the function of of these barbeques. I used the enormously perseverance after a UFO conference I hosted in Tallahassee.

In ending I would be the same as to reduction out to the younger era the appeal of engage based promotion. The suspect in the same way as our stirring system is that it is an, dictatorial skills based training system, a master-slave stirring system in a broad-based remuneration slave society. I did not see until later in life this intellectually and strongly crippling system that I subconsciously rejected while I expire after three years of affiliation. Transnational state and the trickle of law are so fragile that they are terse pompous that a face in back which exists a undetectable habitually rapidly increasing pompous broad-based system of feudal control.

For example we must be ham it up is signal young people to as numerous environments as possible to choose engage. With and unaided along with attend the learner in the same way as the skills looked-for to outshine and lump that engage. The learner must be in the driver's view near this spate and the tutor the secondary not the master. The learner must choose the need to be introduced to not the tutor. This way the learner awfully learns the skills in the function of they can be seen as necessary in promoting the engage and while vision and rejuvenation are not underlying but improved and fostered. This is how I was skilled on a day by day starting place by the best preparatory ecologists and scientists in the world. They skilled image, engage, soft spot, fervor and vision not near intuition and intimidation but out of soft spot and by pattern. Elevated Timbers played a room in this spate.