[Richard Kimball]

I was in Haiti in the 90s, and it was unbelievable. In Haiti, they don't count the bodies.

I don't think I ever saw a wild animal. No birds, nothing. I read an article recently that said some over there were down to eating dirt.

[Radix]

Haitians continue to burn what is left of their trees. The deforestation is simply awful. I have not actually been there myself, but I have read a bit.

A few years ago, when I was in St Kitts, I saw a dead dog in the middle of a downtown road, (I forget the name of the city )and I realized then that the place where I grew up was unlike the rest of the world.

I never saw a dead dog laying in a street before. I mean that dog had been there for a while. It was surreal.

I expect to see more than just a dead dog in the streets of home in the not too far away future. I digress, but it is ever on my mind what we in the USA are headed toward a sort of perdition that is not unlike what might be found now in places such as Haiti.

And where can we go to when that sort of circumstance occurs here? Poverty, hunger, fascists all about, and dead dogs in the streets?