Time Passages

Here we go again...as this weekend we said goodbye to another family member.  I lost my cousin Jay to numerous health issues at, what now seems to me, the young age of 71.  It is so weird to realize all of your parents' generation is gone and now you are on the front line with your generation stepping off into eternity.  Believe me, you don't know how it feels until you reach that certain point in your life.
Jay was one of the family's resident humorists.  Just like our cousin Jim who preceded him in death by a couple of years, you could always count on him to provide plenty of smiles and laughs.  For me, the younger cousin who looked up to these guys, they were the life of every family get-together.  As I was sharing with someone at the memorial service, I regret how most of our family is/was far apart geographically and over the years did not spend a lot of time together.

Life is precious...time here is short.

Climate change and all that crap

This has nothing to do with whether you like or dislike the current resident of the White House:

http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/11/why-the-paris-climate-deal-is-meaningless-000326se: