Indifference in the woods
I just spent a lovely four days with my wife at our small cabin in the mountains of central Oregon. We built this place almost 40 years ago now and have been working on it all that time. Two years ago we finally finished it, as much an any house is ever finished. We were forced to finish it because the windows had lost their seals and needed to be replaced so we did all the final things we had been wanting to do for a long time. Without the internet we were pretty much separated from the news until we bought a Saturday New York Times, along with the groceries. Obama had given a speech attacking Trump. Trump replied that the speech put him to sleep. Big words do that to children. But I read Obama's speech and when I got to "The biggest threat to our democracy is cynicism - a cynicism that's led too many people to turn away from politics and stay home on Election Day," I started to feel guilty. Here I was sitting in the woods, enjoying my retirement with my wife, ...