Crumbling

On the morning bike ride old Kadizzle came across an older fellow walking along in a field with a cane. Engaging the old guy Kadizzle learned he was 87. The fellow said he walks down the hill and back up every day. Kadizzle was a bit amazed about what good shape he was in for a guy his age. Nevertheless, he was crumbling. Back on the prairie where we used to live you often drove past a building in a field crumbling. Indian sites 600 years old are still there, but they are crumbling. The crumbling is inevitable. How long can you resist gravity? 

Many years ago Kadizzle was a coal miner deep underground. One clear memory from those days was walking out of the mine. At the end of the day  you would trudge toward a small source of light. Walking and walking out the straight tunnel with an upward slant you would watch the small light get larger and larger until it was the opening you walked out into another world. That is life, each of us is walking toward that opening, or maybe closing. Slowly the brain and the body give up. How do you know your brain is surrendering? Our panty is right beside the refrigerator. The other day Winky pointed out to Kadizzle that the milk goes in the refrigerator, not the on the shelf in the pantry. Yesterday Greg said Kadizzle might have CRA, can't remember anything. 

The movie is ending, that is reality. However, we will just go on like the movie never ends. The average age in the country has increased by about five years. Every country is becoming a country of old people. What kind of world will we leave the young people? We squandered everything. We set afire the oil and coal, we filled the air with CO2, and we plowed the Earth into dust, as we evaporated all the water and raped the oceans. Yes, but we had a good time with the exception of a war or famine now and then. Did we learn anything? Nope, now we got Republicans, a unique group that glories in waste, stupidity, and Donald Trump. 

Kadizzle is going to jump off planet Earth at just about the right time. Perhaps science can pull us out of this mess, but to a large degree it was science that got us into this mess. The real curse has been religion, and the religion of Fox News. Both allow you to just make it up and believe it. That never has a good ending.