QUESTIONS RUMINATIONS WORRIES ETC.

A commonly used herbicide [on lawns] is killing spruce trees in a many-state area –
The poison flags are all over so many subdivisions…

Large, self-propelled lawnmowers – noisy – have become so common…many are small tractors on small tracts of lawns…faux farmers, the homeowners…

And the noises…the leaf/grass blowers… the not caring what is going on in adjacent yards…

Gasoline-powered weedwhackers; grass trimmers; lawn mowers; power washers- all of them so, so much noise…
The young folks walk with earbuds…they garden with cacophony…they are never still…never really alone…they have their noises.
Their brave new world.

Reflections on the above: it is a delight to retreat form the day noise pollution to The Study buttressed with AC…
But at night…at night we crave the noises of the night….the crickets; the non-threatening thunder; the rain; the sound of the distant passing car; the meow of a neighbor’s cat…the sound of the wind and the wind in the leaves…

Funny how some sounds soothe…and some do not. How some sounds are noise...and some are not.

A USAF jet fighter at an air show….the sound of freedom as we are fond of saying.
The sound of a semi on the highway…not so comforting.
But it could be…in a different context.
Anyway…different contexts…different effects.

npr frets that spouses of transferred military personnel have trouble getting jobs…that it is a resultant hardship to frequent transfers.

You think?

We wonder if npr is implying that government should guarantee jobs for military spouses…
Perhaps that virtually all uncertainties should be removed from our lives…that government should remove all obstacles…

We understand that we are a nation divided between three groups: conservative; liberal; and independent.
At least three groups.

The first two are roughly equal.
The third is smaller and shiftable…unpredictable…the wild card.

There is no third party…and will not be.

Thus, the pols must play to their bases…and to the independents…

And then there is the media…really another constituency…or constituencies…

Quite a job…that of a politician…

Have to check a lot at the door as you go in…