Coinkidink?

Hows this for an intersting coincidence! The other night I was watching the 11'oclock news and they were talking about a murder in Lynnwood. They were interviewing the murdered mans neighbors and there on the Tv was an old friend I had not seen in a couple of years. Turns out she lived right next door the the guy. Then the very next day I was at work when I got a call from another employee of the same company at a satalite branch. As I am talking to her I think, man she sounds really familer to me. Believe it or not it was the same friend I saw on TV the night before! She works at the same company I do but at a different branch. Out of all the people she could have gotten through to on the phone her call came through to me.

Things that make you go Hmmmmm

Maybe it's just me but sometimes I drive around the small town I live in and I am suprised by all of the new construction gonig on all over. New big houses packed in so close to each other you could reach out the window to shake your neighbors hand. New apartments, condos. I see older houses with reasonable sized lots being obliterated and developmens popping up overnight.

Now I know people need a place to live. It seems like it must be hard these days if youa re a struggling family to realize the dream of owning your own home. Still it makes me sad. Maybe I am just a country girl at heart. Progress is inevidable no matter what. My little hometown will only stay that way in my memory. I guess you just can't stop time. I was suprised when I returned to the suburb in London where I had lived for some years. It was about 4 years later I think. It too had changed. The butcher that used to have whole turkeys and geese haning in the window at christmastime was gone. A local church had been turned into a nightclub.

Maybe I'm just too nostalgic for my own good. This song below was written an awful long time ago, but I think it still describes our world today.
Who Will Comfort Me
The darkness now is lifting
Dawn blushes in the sky
It lays a spread of gold and red
And breathes a lullaby
To a thousand quiet creatures
Of earth and sky and stream
Who cannot know that paradise
Will one day be a dream
When the last wagon rolls along
And fades into the West
And cuts a trail of progress
Through a singing skylark's nest
When the last woodland creature
Lifts her head to flee
And is snared by her protector
Lord, who will set her free?
Chorus:
When the boundless spirit
Has no place to roam
The heart will sadly whisper
This world is not my home
When the sweep of wind along the grass
Bows down to destiny
When the last bright star has fallen
Lord, who will comfort me?
When the last prairie flower
Gives up her yellow bloom
When the high cathedral skies
Give way to crowded rooms
When we parcel heavenAnd fence eternity
When the wildness is all tamed and torn
Don't let me live to see
When the last campfire flickers
And is laid to righteous rest
When the Ones who wandered without fear
Are cursed who once were blessed
When all our deeds of gloryAre laid in front of Thee
When you ask what man hath wrought
Don't rest Your gaze on me

Words: Connie DoverMusic adapted from "The Way West" by Brian Keane (Brian Keane Music, ASCAP) From the CD, If Ever I Return, by Connie Dover © Taylor Park Music/Connie Dover

Ok so yeah, it's kind of depressing but hell it's life. Maybe somday I'll get to have a small place with enough land for a few animals.
There seems to be alot of the "back to the land" attitude around these days too. Are we realizing how far away we've come from mother earth? All these electronic convienences we have. Hell, don't even think of taking my cable from me. I guess it's a matter of finding a balance and where you can fit within that balance. Everything today is pretty much instant. Hungry? go to the grovery store? Bored? watch tv, Need to go somewhere, hop in the car.
It certainly is convienent, and I do like alot of these things that make life easier. But maybe we take it for granted. Maybe someday it all won't be so easy. I am often suprised and appaled at how much garbage I produce for a single person.
Oh well, I do have a few hens that I keep as pets and for the eggs. So that's my little contribution to the homesteading movement. That and composting with the chicken poop.
Okay, enough of my rabid ramblings..