kundabuffer's profile

I’m a sixty-one-year-old Boomer who so far has survived birth, being poor, parental divorce, the Southern Baptist Church, public education, Sputnik, Elvis, the Twist, the 60’s, Cuba, JFK, LBJ, Oswald, the Warren Commission, Cassius Clay, LSD, pot, bra burning, draft card burning, Fortran, New Math, hippies, yippies, Haight Ashbury, The Beatles, Bubble Gum Rock, Playboy, M.L.King, school busing, desegregation, "I have a dream," the Berlin Wall, Woodstock, Altamonte, Apollo 11, the 70’s, Nixon, Kent State, Vietnam, Watergate, Swine flu, SNL, Don Juan and Carlos, disco, Muzak, Techo-Rock, Disney World, the Love Boat, the Love Canal, the Ruskies, Mao, Iran, marriage, divorce, parenthood, Penthouse, John Lennon, Jim Jones, MTV, Michael Jackson, Hustler, Reagan, Iran-Contra, the 90’s, Clinton, Jessica Hahn, two Bushes, two wars, ozone depletion, CMT, the Exxon Valdez, voodoo economics, Y2K, corporate America, leveraged buyouts, Six Sigma, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, NAFTA, Enron, Big Oil, Bin Laden, 9-11, Iraq, WMD, AIDS, genocide, Columbine, smooth jazz, smart bombs, reality TV, Jim and Tammy Faye, the Internet, AOL, 9600 baud, iPods, Oprah, rogaine, American Idol, congenital diseases, clinical depression, stem cells, Viagra, dimpled chads, Katrina, global warming, Amber alerts, open borders, closed minds and dead friends.

I enjoy listening to and playing music, reading, writing prose and poetry, philosophy, religion, thinking and wondering, interesting conversation, shopping for antiques, yard sales, fishing, swimming, golf, photography, traveling, bike riding, walking, movies and documentaries.

An additional observation. We’re all we have. We are all here on the Earth together, in a bad place in a bad way at a bad time, and nobody is going to ride in at the last minute and fix it for us. If we don’t fix ourselves and how we live, the next dominant life form will be along shortly to replace us. Time is running out. We don’t have to worry about “saving the Earth.” The Earth will be quite fine, thank you. Our concern should be helping the Earth maintain that narrow margin of conditions which allow us to live in harmony with all the other life forms here and if possible, perform the function intended for us. The Earth is our mother, not our dump.