Longing for a Simpler Time

For those of you who are not aware of the fact: there were simpler times in the past. All one needed to do was to go downtown and all of your troubles would go away. Well maybe you had to live in the UK for this to be true, then again, I am not sure about that actually.

What all this leads me to think about is how one can escape the realities of the world - then and now. I am a believer that we do too much of it these days - escaping that is. Not all of us mind you, but more of us than should. That is why we are where we are. With economic inequity, financial crisis, seemingly another war starting every time the previous one ends - it is all still around us.  We do seem so less bothered by it all than I remember us being so in the past. How can this be a good thing?

Maybe it is just that simpler times lend themselves to us thinking just a bit more.

Chip On My Couch

Like most everyone these days I really abhor waste. While my pissed off quotient at waste in government is quite high, I can really do nothing about it can I? Okay yes I can vote and hope I choose someone who stays off the pork barrel for awhile.  But I am more inclined to just accept that that is bacon, gladly eat it and deal with the ever increasing blood pressure it stimulates.

Today I want to rant about those who waste potato chips. They leave their crumbs everywhere - including in my couch, and I cannot help but remember my moms admonitions of all the starving people int he world who are now missing out on potato chips. How sad is that. This holiday think of those starving people in the whirl and put your potato chips in your mouth, not all over the house and especially not down into the cracks of my couch. Pass the salt please.