Can We Talk 2

Quiet Winter Day

         It is another cold, wet February day. Solar panels are not producing much electricity. This summer, hopefully they will store up power and even export some, so that when I need more, it will come from the grid against my credit. For now, I am still dependent on the grid. And I am cold.

         I think it is a fine day for whining and complaining. The church assistant treasurer is complaining about the monthly electric bill, even though we can't heat the building very well. She also complains because the music is too high pitched. No one will rewrite the hymn book to her range so that she can comfortably sing all the songs she grew up with.

         I can't stand to watch more than a few minutes of any news station because there is so much negativity and finger pointing from all sides. When I was growing up people from both parties could disagree with each other but still go to dinner together or even live in the same house. Now it seems like animosity and intolerance are the rules of the day. I know people who are super liberal and some who are super conservative. They can speak around me because I keep my mouth shut. They are afraid at both ends to speak out in public for fear of retaliation.

         I am looking through the blinds at the window behind my PC. The evergreen is swaying in the cold wind. The bare limbs of the catalpa tree sway a little. Mother Nature just keeps on her course without complaining, without noticing what is upsetting and worrying us humans. The world keeps turning no matter what happens. We need to spend more time being quiet instead of feeling the need to talk so much.