It's an "earning day" so I was off early. Will make a new post Thursday. Here are some ideas that trouble me so while I'm driving:

- The severity of the proposed national budget

- The mindset of a person so influenced by religion that they would harm children

- The future of areas of the country that have been bypassed by the modern world

- Why we have, in some ways, turned toward being a mean-sprited nation

- Implications of a "post-reality" paradigm

- Images of New York, Miami and other cities after the polar icecaps melt

- The soothing power of music

As I used to hear when I lived in the Haight-Ashbury: "Peas and harmony grits."