We are just starting to have fall weather around here and the leaves are begining to change color.  Here are some photos.

I was told to put my heart in a safe deposit box and replace my brain with a pocket calculator, to not get emotional.  That would harm my argument.  I’d ruin my credibility….

          But goddammit, I am emotional! I am passionate.  I’m angry. I feel something.  I’m not some New Age automaton, some goddamn computer, a pocket calculator.  I don’t have silicon chips up here.  I’m flesh and blood.  The winds fill my lungs, the mountains make my bones, the oceans run through my veins.  I’m an animal and I’ll never be anything but an animal.  When a chain saw rips into a two-thousand-year-old redwood tree it’s ripping into my guts.  When a bulldozer plows through a virgin hillside, it’s plowing trough my side, and when a bullet knocks down a grizzly bear or a wolf, it’s going through my heart… 

We think with the whole world, we’re alive with the whole world.  We’re not blocked off, just these robots, these unfeeling things.  But that’s how we’ve become.  We’re afraid to love somebody else, to love a place. To feel something because we might get hurt.  We don’t want to get hurt.  Don’t care about anything, just cut yourself off, be a happy yuppie robot.  That’s what George Bush wants you to be.  That’s the way Exxon wants you to be….  I happy little robots programmed to consume.

I also included a little rant that I have be thinking about lately, at no extra charge.