Seize the Day!

Yup. Horace expressed it right. Not sure where I first heard it. Seize the Day! Yet today I ponder what’s left to seize?

Instead of celebrating democracy I’m cursing it.

Sure everyone has different points of view. Can’t say I can recall a leader that everyone has been happy with. We all prosper with our own points of view.

But in my circle, I’m not the only one.

Got a good chuckle when out for the evening ride. It was an impromptu meet-up. I happened to roll up on a couple gals.
“Where you going?” Glenowyn asked.

“An hour, hour and a half,” I replied.

“Come with us,” she replies.

We’re on our way to Thetis Lake using the multi-use cycling network.

Along the way the conversation soon jets to the aftermath. Kate who was new to me mumbled on that her mother was going to immigrate.

I replied with, "Where from?"

She wants to get out of Canada she replied. Go to New Zealand.

That closed in on a belly laugh for me.

Not the first time I’d heard of folks heading down, down south though.

Whatever have we become?
A Prime Minister with a handshake of a dead fish.

No semblance to life on earth other then the almighty dollar.

Seize the day?
Not a chance.

What Next?

Watching a BBC News Reporter talk next to a nuclear power plant in Japan has me scratching my head.

I heard my son say powering our lives with nuclear makes good business sense. Now I’m shaking my head.

You don’t see poor fat people do you?
Not likely. They can’t afford the fast food, the dining out or the delivered pizza.

I’m pissed off. I don’t understand how man became so dysfunctional. We erupt to break things, can’t always fix them, then leave them pushing the blame elsewhere.

I really don’t understand.

Yes I shed love. Wherever I go. Honestly. But today, I’m feeling fed up.

What can I do?

Listening to the news, I hear of the extreme levels of radiation in our Pacific Ocean. My first thought is for the whales. Not the fish that we eat.
We all share the air. I remember declaring the first Fresh Air/Car Free Day in my fair city. It happened days after then President George W. Bush refused to sign the Kyoto Agreement. What’s the point I immediately said to myself?

Here I am trying to herald a movement to generate interest in taking care of our air, yet on the southern half of the hemisphere, they don’t care.

Today the Canadian government is fired. Two days ago I received a telephone call. I was asked if there was an election if I would vote for the current Prime Minister.

I firmly shouted my answer into the receiver. Then click.

What next?