Blotting out the horrendous demise is a daily effort of mine. No seems to it, every day we are blasted with a new demand, threat or outrage. Just one day I would like not to hear from the gooberment about anything.
As for the sprawl, I retired on the state highway I grew up on. Sixty or more years ago I’d lie awake at night with the windows open listening for the sound of a distant car approach and fade as it passed by. Now, it is a steady din of noise.
The rural water line installed in the early 70s is now on its second expansion in the seven years since I returned home. First a six inch line, then an 8” and now a third line of 12” to replace the original 6” line.
Momma read to us a children’s book by Virginia Lee Burton “The Little House” from peaceful country to surrounded by city. That book was from 1943. I feel like that little house. Now a child doesn’t even need a Momma to read the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-UnakYw7A
This is no voice like Mom’s. I got a load of fuel out here one day. The driver had to call the house and Mom answered to give him directions. When he got here he said: “Who was that lady on the phone? I could listen to her all day.” I laughed, “That was my Momma.”
The world I knew is crumbling and changing far too fast for me. When my time comes I hope I’m ready and worthy of better things.
The transformation of our nation is a ghastly sight indeed. It causes me to weep for those who have never known better and never will.
That’s an excellent post, Sequoyah. Very well put.
“Just one day I would like not to hear from the gooberment about anything.” — Wouldn’t we all? Or from the evil wokesters, child mutilators, homos, trannies — all of it.
We were fortunately to be able to buy a second house in the Idaho panhandle, only 40 miles from where my Mom was born and one mile from where my grandparents retired in 1966. Unfortunately, all the people fleeing the crap in CA, OR, and WA are coming to our little, hidden Shangri-La and it has changed a lot in the past 5 years. It is growing furiously and everybody fears the transplants are bringing their evil ways with them.