<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>The Tree of Life @ ttr.blog-city.com</title><link>http://ttr.blog-city.com/</link><description>(The Tree of Life) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 ttr.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:14:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>The Tree of Life @ ttr.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://ttr.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>The Sun Never Says To The Earth...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ttr.blog-city.com/the_sun_never_says_to_the_earth.htm</guid><link>http://ttr.blog-city.com/the_sun_never_says_to_the_earth.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://ttr.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsun%5Fnever%5Fsays%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fearth</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What a way to start the week: I deliver a fine used Acura TL to a client that purchased his first car from me sixteen years ago.&nbsp; In our conversation he reminded me that, many years ago,&nbsp;I had sent out a post card with a Hafiz poem on it, a]]></description></item><item><title>Back from My Vacation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ttr.blog-city.com/back_from_my_vacation.htm</guid><link>http://ttr.blog-city.com/back_from_my_vacation.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://ttr.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=back%5Ffrom%5Fmy%5Fvacation</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It was good to get away for a while.&nbsp; I worked in the studio, planted my garden and read quite a bit.&nbsp; Here is a picture of last year&#39;s garden:]]></description></item><item><title>ON VACATION: May 7 through May 28, 2007</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ttr.blog-city.com/vacation.htm</guid><link>http://ttr.blog-city.com/vacation.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 20:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://ttr.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=vacation</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I will be on vacation from May 7&nbsp;through May 28.&nbsp; Nothing special, just working in my studio and garden.&nbsp; If you need assistance before I return, please ask for Gerald Wessels or Linda Quiros.]]></description></item><item><title>Mstislav Rostropovich has died, aged 80 April 27 2007</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ttr.blog-city.com/mstislav_rostropovich_has_died_aged_80_april_27_2007.htm</guid><link>http://ttr.blog-city.com/mstislav_rostropovich_has_died_aged_80_april_27_2007.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://ttr.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mstislav%5Frostropovich%5Fhas%5Fdied%5Faged%5F80%5Fapril%5F27%5F2007</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I know this is off-topic, but&nbsp;&#39;Slava&#39; was one of my heroes.&nbsp; Would that we all had as much courage and character.&nbsp; Here is his&nbsp;Gramophone obituary:&nbsp;Cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, one of the 20th century&]]></description></item><item><title>The Tree of Life: Reflections on Consultation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ttr.blog-city.com/the_tree_of_life_reflections_on_consultation.htm</guid><link>http://ttr.blog-city.com/the_tree_of_life_reflections_on_consultation.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://ttr.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ftree%5Fof%5Flife%5Freflections%5Fon%5Fconsultation</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sales people are now often referred to as Sales Consultants...or, they refer to themselves this way...particularly on their business cards, just as life insurance sales people refer to themselves as &#39;Financial Consultants.&#39;&nbsp; There are an]]></description></item><item><title>Chris Faison with New 2007 Subaru Outback</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ttr.blog-city.com/chris_faison_with_new_2007_subaru_outback.htm</guid><link>http://ttr.blog-city.com/chris_faison_with_new_2007_subaru_outback.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://ttr.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chris%5Ffaison%5Fwith%5Fnew%5F2007%5Fsubaru%5Foutback</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is the 6th car the Faison Family has purchased from me...and a warm, delightful experience it was...a prime example of the economy of gifts that pervades all of our transactions in and beyond the&nbsp;general economy...always exceeding&nbsp;the]]></description></item><item><title>The Tree of Life: Why write a Blog for Automobile Sales?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ttr.blog-city.com/firstentry.htm</guid><link>http://ttr.blog-city.com/firstentry.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://ttr.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=firstentry</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Their were two varieties of truth, one symbolized by the Tree of Knowledge, the other by the Tree of Life, one the truth of striving and the other the truth of receptivity.  Knowledge divorced from life equals sickness."  Click on title to read comp]]></description><category>blog entry</category><category>writing</category><category>blog</category></item></channel></rss>