Friday, September 5, 2008

it's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)

It really hit me when my family went to a theme park, the mass production of things to buy, the means by which they are created, what they are or may be, the foods manufactured to feed us, the labs where the ingredients are concocted, the methods of dealing with over-population, the waste and loss apparent from land-fills and oceans to the air we breathe and the health-related problems of our bodies, how it's connected.
And though it is, in some ways, fun and an escape from how we make a living to enjoy such diversions, it is costly in more ways than just getting a ticket and getting there.
When I ask my daughter if she had a good time and she says yes, the next topic will always be what her favorite part of it was. In that context, there is no worry, only fireworks.