Two life changing events yesterday:
I had an early morning meeting with a fellow teacher at a Starbucks. I
think the entire world is addicted to coffee. (Except for myself and a
few other sages.) We met for two hours say, and the line of people
going through the drive through never stopped--never slowed.
Astounding. We are a nation under the influence. Sneak a little mind
control drug in our coffee, we would be doomed.
When I came home from school yesterday afternoon, (did I just say "came
home from school"? thought I would never say that again in this
lifetime) I found my driveway blocked by a huge limb from one of my
walnut trees. I've been hoping they would all fall down, so I guess
they're going to do it one great limb at a time. Took me a while to cut
that thing up so I could get to the cave. I wish they would just fall
down in a direction other than across my driveway. It forces me to
violate one of Iten's Acres by-laws: "Let fallen trees lie where they
fall." Maybe I should just park up near the front of the driveway where
there are no trees. Hmmm, that might not be a bad hermitting approach?
No, then people would know my driveway wasn't just a cow path, that
there was an abode back there somewhere in the trees. Dilemma. Ahhh
well, keep falling down walnut trees; I'll just cut you down to size and
move you somewhere out of the way and pretend that's where you fell.
Subterfuge can be good.
But now I know two deep truths:
When China buys Starbucks and takes over America and drugs the populace, only I will be a free man.
And everything can't go just the way you want it to.
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