My depressing vision for the future

Nolan and Nordica

please don't shoot the messenger!

Finally got to spend a few days with my son while he was home on leave. It's been years since I had both my children under my roof; I felt very blessed and grateful that I'm not dead yet. It's the first time he's been around our lifestyle and he seemed to really like our gertees. We ate, talked music, movies, politics (but not communitarian war), books, played spades, shot pool and this mother of a US Marine was sure happy to see her boy can shoot. It was also good to hear a bit about what his deployment was like, where he was and how he lived over there. Said my gertee camp is nicer than theirs was. He was in a rural, undeveloped, poor area where the conditions are primitive and the biggest threat is the road bombs. I found myself wanting to believe the role he plays there is as a peacekeeper... it would be so much easier on me.

He hasn't had time to read the books I sent to him, but before he left he commented, like so many people I know I have said to me, that my vision for America's future sure is depressing. "It's not my vision," I told him, "it's Etzioni's." Etzioni just knows how to make it sound better.

10 foot pvc gertee's new set-up in backyard

I'm disappearing..... :)