I showed Loverpants the envelope, the standard 9" in width business envelope. My name was typed in the To: field, but it might as well been addressed to the whole Loverpants crew. There was only one folded piece of paper contained within the envelope and I reminded Loverpants that our future was contained in that one small vessel, on that one sheet of paper, the slice of processed wood. So much in this life depends upon a tree.

Nests and swings and fruit and birds and squirrels. And paper.

But I already knew what this one said, since the committee had already e-mailed me with a copy. The members awaited my affirmative response.

(To be continued...)