Musings from a middle age mind.

Remember when you could go outside at night and see millions of stars? Or when seeing an Jet flying overhead was a rarity? What about laying on the lawn and looking at the shapes of clouds and trying figure figure out what they reminded you off? Now you are lucky if you see only the brightest stars, don't want to see a jet at all but at least the clouds are still there.

Why do we need street lights? What useful purpose do they serve? I mean really they burn electricity. Electricity that comes most likey from either coal or natural gas. Which creates co2 that is one of the causes of climate change.

The same thing with stores that have lights on after they are closed. Or  a many other things we think we need but actually don't. When I was a boy we didn't even have central air or heating. We got along just fine.

Now I have allergies from all kinds of pollen that never even bother me when I was a little kid growing up in rural Union City Ga. We were surrounded by 50 acres of sage straw. Another 20 acres of pine, hickory and oak covered land that during spring and summer I played in. Never once did I get a sniffle or a headache.

Now I'm not saying that central heating/air are the cause but it is interesting that when we started staying inside most of the time that allergies have increased. However, then so have the number of people.  So who's to say one way or another.

What I am getting at is that maybe we just need to take a personal inventory of our stuff and see what we really can do without.  Not sayin' get rid of them but just do it to place things in perspective. We clutter our lives with both material and mental junk and need to clear that stuff out of the way.

Thanks for your time and patience.

Dale

(c) July 23, 2011 by Delbert McGill and Dale's Musings.