Guest guest Posted September 27, 2009 Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 Howdy y'all, I really appreciate all the kind posts sent to this list .. and the many off line posts. I'm still working my way through some off line posts but I need to reply on line now .. and the best way to do it is a consolidated reply. > Lori VanScoter <lvanscoter <lvanscoter wrote: > Glad for you Butch, but you will be missed! Thank you ma'am .. I will miss the group and all my friends and customers .. but I'll still be around. > I hope that we can trust " the new guy " to be as good as you!!! Lots of folks are as good as I am when it comes to knowing the truth about essential oils .. just maybe some of them would rather tell folks what they want to hear rather than what they should hear. John is not one of those folks and I am certain that he will gain every one's confidence in time. > I do have a Young Living dealer in my little small town area, how to politely convince my close friends that she is dangerous?? I'm the wrong person to be asking that of .. I've not yet figured out a polite way to tell folks that the current administration in D.C. is dangerous. ;-) Maybe John can deal with it as he has swayed many from the YL cult. > When I visited her little booth at the local festival, she claimed that " Young Living oils are the purest oils there are, and the only ones you can safely ingest and use on your face etc.... " Yep .. sounds like a parrot she does. That's what they tell their peddlers and that works for folks who know nothing about EO but folks who know even a tad about EO immediately understand that a sales pitch like that means that the parrot doing the squawking knows nothing about EO. According to the YL Groupies, their oils are guaranteed to not rust, bust or collect dust and they are Blessed by their Mentor. There is only so much we can do for folks .. we can lead some folks to knowledge but we can't make them think. If we take on correction of YL's unsafe policies and corrupt marketing hype as a personal challenge it can be mighty damn frustrating .. some of us tried that in the past so I speak from experience. I believe I might be more successful converting Osama bin Laden to Judaism than I could be converting " some " YL groupies to being responsible practitioners. I butted heads with the YL hierarchy for a lotta years .. but now I'm more concerned about making my cat stop crapping in my garden than I am about YL pushing " Rain Drop Therapy " . ;-) In this unregulated industry there is great potential for harm to clients when YL folks practice on others .. and in time the industry will be regulated too much .. like is the case in Europe now. YL will be in large part responsible for this. Big Brother is not very good at regulating himself but he knows how to complicate things and create more useless levels of oversight. > She gave me a handout that made all kinds of quacky claims....very scary, and even scarier is that people were buying it, literally, someone right there spent over $65.00 on a detox kit...a friend of mine thinks that I would just love her because I > am into it as well. (hell no) and what does anyone know about her " detox " foot soaks? Detox in general is a great term if someone is planning a marketing hype campaign. Thanking you I am for being a good customer and friend these past years and wishing you all that's good. :-) - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Christy, >> So .. effective 1 October 2009, I will not longer be the owner of AVNP. > Wow. Ok, I knew it was coming eventually, but...wow. I understand why you are doing this. Family, health, quality of life, that all has to come first, especially the family part. You are perzackly right! > Butch, you will be missed. But I'm sure you are leaving things in capable hands, as well. Thank you ma'am .. and that I am doing. > Thank you for bringing your products and knowledge to the AT community, I appreciated you even more when I was a newbie, more than 10 years ago, staying at home raising my new baby boy, reading about essential oils and wondering what > they were all about. And thank you for deciding to continue to bring your products to us through your new owner. > Christy Greenway My pleasure it was and welcome you are on both counts. I also thank you for being a good friend and customer. :-) - - - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Allana, > Wishing you every happiness in your new phase of life, Butch. I hope that you will enjoy every moment with your family and your land. Many thanks for all the great oils and great advice you have provided over the years. Thank you ma'am for the kind words .. and welcome you are for sure. > I hope you will continue to contribute to this list and share your unique point of view. Unique is probably a good term to use .. long winded and opinionated are others. ;-) I'll write from time to time .. especially when I see something I know is unsafe .. as is the case for something just posted to the list today. > Stay well, > Allana Thank you ma'am .. and you. I appreciate your support over all these years. - - - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Diana, > I wish you and the company the best. I am so glad that you found someone to take over and keep things going and that you will hang around for a while to help out too. Thank you ma'am .. it was a fortunate thing and happy I am. > Enjoy having more time with your family I'm gonna do my best to do my best to do that. ;-) > Organically Yours, > Diana > http://organicgiftsbydiana.mybisi.com/ > http://organicgiftsbydiana.blogspot.com/ Right on .. but don't forget Wild Grown .. many of the best (and purest) EO are Wild Grown. :-) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Tina, > Congratulations on your retirement and time with the wunderkind. Thank you ma'am. > I've worked with John Croskey of Ancient Healing Oils , and he is > easy-going and a good guy, so I imagine it will be a smooth transition for > everyone. I totally agree .. and I believe folks will give him the same support I have had for all these years. > Tina Sams > _The Essential Herbal Magazine_ (http://www.essentialherbal.com/) > _download FREE ISSUE_ (http://tinyurl.com/myxs8w) > _The Essential Herbal Blog_ (http://theessentialherbal.blogspot.com/) - - - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Ien, > Dear Butch, > > You are a wise man, and your family is lucky to have you. Thank you ma'am .. I reckon that's true about the lucky part but maybe I am a bit more lucky than they are. :-) As for wise .. debatable and even hard to define .. but as we age we do have the advantage of having made more mistakes than the younger folks .. so I reckon we have the best kind of experience. ;-) > Please do continue to spout off here now and then. I always > enjoy your rants and ruminations. Thank you ma'am .. I promise to do that now and then. > Ien in the Kootenays > http://freegreenliving.com Y'all keep smiling. :-) - - - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Saskia, >>You are a wise man, and your family is lucky to have you. >>Please do continue to spout off here now and then. I always >>enjoy your rants and ruminations. > >Couldn't agree more with Ien! You rock, Butch J Wow .. lotta praise today. Not sure its all deserved .. but then I have arthritis and I'm not sure that's deserved either. ;-) > Greetz, > Saskia Thank you ma'am .. appreciated. :-) - - - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Jen, > Congrats, Butch.....enjoy the freedom. Thank you ma'am .. gonna give it my best shot. > By the way...howdy neighbor. I'm in Gibson Co. > Jen Good it is .. thanks for hollering my way. :-) - - - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Dara, > Dear Butch, > That's a big change, but I am glad that you'll have time to fish and > spend more time with your loved ones! Thank you ma'am .. that is my intent .. starting as soon as I return from Friendsville. Gotta sew in camouflage burlap around the deer stands and plant a few feed plots in the woods. Got Tanya a hunting license this year .. she has fired pistols but never a muzzle loader or a 30.06 .. but its gonna happen in early November. ;-) > I have no doubt that the new owner will do a fine job, but I will miss > you. Please keep in touch here on the lists! > Dara Thank you ma'am .. the feeling is mutual and that I will do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Connie, > Awe Butch, > We love you and wish the best for you and yours. Thank you ma'am. :-) > I will support your ownership change in the best > way I can, continue to buy from your company. Appreciated it will be .. for sure. > Hope you will still be active in the group! I will do my best. > Thanks again, > Connie Hunt And I thank you. :-) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Margot, > Just wanted to un-lurk to say thank you to you Butch for all the information you > give. Enjoy your time with your little boy and your new schedule as a " retired " > person. The busiest people I know are retired. Thank you ma'am .. and I do believe you. Busy I will be for sure but it will be doing those things I have laid aside for too long. > I am a super novice but enjoy all of the experience and information here and > hope that you will keep letting us benefit from your experience. > Margot Thanks .. I will stop in now and then. I have never commented on purely AT matters .. I've took two AT courses many years back but I have never claimed to be an AT Practitioner. My area of expertise (or interest?) in this industry is rather narrow .. but I'll step in from time to time if I think some input might be of assistance to a wandering soul. ;-) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Cindy, > Wow Butch, it just won't be the same without your wit and wisdom, but I wish > you well and enjoyment on your retirement! Cindy Thank you ma'am .. appreciated for sure and I hope to have time to do all the things I have put on the shelf for many years now. :-) - - - - - - - - - - - - Howdy Sue, > Butch, I hope you enjoy a long and fulfilling retirement. It is wonderful to see > that you notice the physical changes and want to do something about them, rather > than give in to age (which is really just a state of mind as you are proving). Thanks .. for sure I'll not allow anything it to preclude me from doing things I like to do. I told Tanya that if my arthritis ever gets bad enough that I can't climb a ladder to a tree stand .. then we gotta hook up a pulley of some sort and she can pull me up using the winch on my all terrain vehicle. ;-) > Will you still be participating in the group on occasion? I am being a little > selfish in wanting you to continue to add your 2 cents as it is too interesting > to give up that easy. Sue Thank you ma'am .. I'll be around from time to time. :-) Bet those of you who read this far are glad its over. ;-) I truly thank all the folks on this group and other groups .. and throughout America and other countries for their support of me and AVNP. If I missed replying to anyone it was an oversight .. certainly not intentional and I apologize if that be the case. I believe that regardless of our occupation we must be concerned about the reputation we leave behind .. for a fact one Aw Shit can wipe out ten Attaboys in most any position we might find ourselves in. The motto I chose for my Turkish company back in 1995 is also the motto of AVNP .. its on the web site. " Practicing the Discipline of Business Ethics " . I have tried to live up to that motto and I think that I will probably be remembered as a dinosaur who did his best and told it like he thought it was ... and that's good enough for me. Y'all have a good one .. and keep smiling. :-) Butch ... http://www.AV-AT.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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