Hmm?
% of global humanity experiencing extended family keeps shrinking-geography alone pries traditional support away-expansive media pretends intimacy-media replacing extended family hmm?
Rednecks Redux
Sunburns come in many colors. The quickest way to become a redneck is to spend too many hours working under a hot summer sun. Humanity’s neck coloring differences are mostly inherited DNA, nurtured by xenophobic isolation, then brushed with climate. Rednecks are a complex subject. The word redneck is used to describe independent country folk…
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Stewardship
This is a very important time in human history, because whatever we’re in charge of and responsible for, we’re in charge of and responsible for now.
My Weather Mantra
Consider chanting or humming this mantra today: Facing the sky, reaching deeper into your own steady breathing, sincerely repeat these words : (one-hundred reps recommended) Snow-Cold Go Away Don’t Come Back Till Autumn Fades
Development & Prosperity in Chatham County North Carolina
Does upgrading become more prevalent as a county gets richer? Welcome new developments? Continue to work on Haw River and Jordan Lake cleanup? Keep Kudzu out? Control Sevin dust and Coyotes? What development and prosperity did the first settlers have in mind when they came here around 1751? Apparently the Catawba Indians were friendly towards the colonists and later served side by side with them fighting the British in our Revolutionary War. How did it turn out for the Catawba? It’s easy to justify anti-development perspectives as long as one forgets that there’s probably not a single person contributing to this debate who would be here were it not for a long series of developers.
Pittsboro’s Warrior Memorial
Tens of thousands of warrior memorials exist in the world today. War memorial statuary is found in Germany, Russia, England, France, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, India, Vietnam, China, Africa, the United States and elsewhere. Honoring defenders made sense since the beginning of humanity. Communities who fail to honor their past and present defenders are jeopardizing their…
Response to a Friend Commenting on new Bill Moyers Documentary
Unfortunately, in this respect, Moyers resembles most of us who have no idea how civilization is going to better manage the absence of jobs crisis, which is just beginning, and civilization’s health care cost crisis, which is just beginning.
Bamboo II: Bamboozling Nature
Human bamboozling, one of our natural limitations, resembles what causes so many people to condemn bamboo. How many gardens has humanity invaded? How many life forms has Homo sapiens driven towards extinction? Who’s next? Where next? Is any garden on earth safe from our human propensity to invade? Most important, is there any possibility that humanity is about to do a better job of self-control?
Longer Lines for Government Services
Government and civilization go hand in hand. The storehouses in biblical Egypt were a government project.
Shrinking government has its downsides. Waiting longer for services is one of them.
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War on Religion
Delete Religion An active constituency insists that civilization would be better off with no religion. This anti-religion constituency has grown in numbers. They claim religion is mumbo-jumbo. They remind people about centuries of dastardly behavior, violence against weddings and worshipers, pilgrims and patients, students and children committed in the name of some religious brand. They…