In the final analysis
And in the end they said, what did we do wrong? But there really wasn’t any answer to that question though they felt the need to ask.
There wasn’t any one thing or group of things they could have done that would have changed the course of what’s to come any more than a time traveler can change the future. They could question what was happening. They could voice their discontent. They could vote. They could write about it. They could read what others had written. They could create blogs. They could post comments. They could upload their videos to You Tube. They could tweet. They could put it on Facebook. But in the final analysis, with more than half a billion tweets per day and rising and over 1.5 billion Facebook users, at the end of the day the only thing that changed was time.
It was early. Then it was late. The sun came up. Now it was down and the moon would be rising. And if we were lucky, we would live to see another day.
Howard Glasser, Kelseyville
Many ways to save
After reading the letter from the editor, “Keeping the glass Half Full,” I had to come up with a solution.
It takes two gallons of water to get hot water to my kitchen sink. So I started filling gallon milk bottles. I can use it for plants (roses), animals, etc. Flushing the toilet is the biggest water use, so we don’t after each use. With four women in the house, that’s a lot of water. Now we have to watch our laundry use to make sure each load is full.
Sometimes the simplest things work out. Start saving!
No water for cars or lawns.
Pat West, Lakeport
Secular humanism
“The battle for mankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom. The classroom must and will become the area of conflict between… the rotting corpse of Christianity and the new faith of humanism.” John Dunphy, Secular Humanism
Stacey Salvadori, Hidden Valley Lake
