There is an obvious cool in the early evening air here on the back porch. The few trees we have around here have an early Fall tint in their color but here we have mostly Cedar trees, well really, lots of Cedar and rocks. Where I am at if you are in the business of developing properties for a sub division or town homes the ground prep will require a time of blasting and hauling off a substantial amount of surface rock. Hope I got that right, I am not a developer so the lingo is an attempt to look like I know about such stuff. Clearing my mind tonight concerns a series of troubling increase in attitudes and behaviors that have overtaken society at large. Have you noticed lately it seems people are mad all the time. Actually it would not be over the top to say we have reached a stage of just plain angry. There are many synonyms for  the word mad and right off one of the very first is just plain angry. Now being just plain angry ain’t a good thing. I view that as and action verb because if that is where you are, a few well placed words won’t do the job. If your mad you can avoid whatever it was that you encountered, ignore the situation or just pout…don’t laugh, even men are some of the best pouters around…ever seen a Vol fan after a significant loss. Put it this way. Someone pushes you, you push back… then their push becomes a shove. When I was in high school a shove required a punch and so on. I think it kinda goes like this. Life can and usually pushes you around every day and you can go with the flow or find another way around. Now a shove interrupts forward progress, it is upfront and personal and disrupts your direction and you stumble forward into anger. Anger has no reason or judgment and often leads to violence. 

I am asking a question I have no answer for. What has brought all segments of society to this point…why are we so angry? Have the videos, movies so desensitized us to death and violence that we have lost all sense of worth as to human life. It seems as though we are oblivious to others pain and the corruption of our moral standards. I don’t believe we are going to hell in a handbag. There is not a bag big enough for all of us.    

Come back next week…in the meantime…Be nice to someone.

jk