small gardens & small government

   Being a grown up sucks! It's full of responsibilities. You have to do things and be concerned about family, friends, even yourself. Just came home from taking Cooper to the vet to have a large fatty tumor removed.  For those of us without children pets fill a good piece of that void. With both children and pets adults are faced with making decisions on their behalf. Some decisions are easy like "let's go for a walk" and need no deeper conversation. Other decisions, well, you wish you could have a deeper conversation if only to assuage your guilt over the pain and reassure them it will be OK.   I wrote the last blog about the, underlying and joined, libertarian principles of Rights and responsibilities. In a bit of kismet Deb and I visited Standing Bear Park in Ponca City. I knew nothing about Standing Bear we were simply following a suggestion of a good place to walk Cooper. The walk was nice but the interpretative pieces of the park were in a bit of disrepair and

   I'm looking out at a sea of green, muted with a fog. The fog likely spells rain and no outside chores today. For today the only music is the chirping of the birds and the buzz of hummers diving past me to the feeders. A man with a plan could accomplish much before any rain or heat slowed him down. Me, I'm pondering 'apathy', the last few sips of my coffee and remembering fondly my year bartending at Guthries on the  harbor in the Virgin Islands.  The ponder might be apathy - might be detoxing. Apathy gets a bad name but has apathy ever started a war? In my younger life Dewars was the fuel for problems. For the world I think it might just be doers. As I write that I have to immediately temper it with recognition that some doer created and made this laptop. The morning would still be as beautiful without technology but the the peace would be broken with the sound of me chiseling on a stone tablet. "Honey, I'm running out of stone could you get me some more!&q