<html><div>At 01:31 PM 3/1/00 +1100, you wrote:</div>
<div>>hello all</div>
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<div>>I'm opening space tomorrow (in Australia) with a group of people
involved</div>
<div>>in landcare (a participatory, mainly rural-based social and
environmental</div>
<div>>movement) from the Phillipines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos,
Thailand,</div>
<div>>Vietnam, USA, New Zealand and Australia.</div>
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<div>>Any ideas on what I could use as an appropriate and culturally
sensitive</div>
<div>>talking stick? (easily obtainable too!)</div>
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<div>Personally I favor an evergreen bough. It is living, smells good,
and is androgeneous. In addition, when people hold it, the sap warms and
sticks to their fingers. Gives them something to remember.</div>
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Harrison
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