Monday, The Start Of A Hopefully Warmer Week.

 Snow, again.

Early this morning  the flakes started their dance to the floor but thankfully they didn't last long. It was and still is bitterly cold but it seems that as the week progresses so the warmth will too. Here's hoping.

Today I had occasion to fetch medication for an elderly gentleman at the top of our village. He is turning 100 in July. Can you imagine? His house is beautifully perched atop the hill and thus he has the most spectacular view of note. He sits at a huge dining table that looks straight out onto the veranda and the valley below.

A view to make one forget time, a view to make the thoughts chase each other or not to move at all. Such a stunning place to sit during the day. I only ever stop at the veranda door due to corona but I can still take note of his surrounds. To his right the television was spewing forth the horror that has befallen our time. The war.

Which makes me wonder how this man sees the events taking place. For him it is a deja vu of atrocity, stupidity and no humanity. He will know what follows a war, that is if one makes it out alive. It wouldn't surprise me if he did think the world a stupid place for repeating a war yet again.

The news today told about a report on climate change and how we have to act now. Not tomorrow, but now. The state of our climate is dire and heading into an inferno. But will we people ever learn?

Take this war in Ukraine. Why couldn't the world enforce a no-fly zone? Most of the destruction of buildings and infrastructure wouldn't have taken place then and if one fast forwards to the end of this war, a no-fly zone would have meant that precious resources needn't be used up in order to rebuild the country. The climate can't afford to have those resources extracted from the earth in order to rebuild something that two months ago was whole.

It saddens me to say that perhaps this world is in such a state because most politicians in charge of it are close to pension age, if not over it. They don't care as deeply about the climate as the young ones do for the simple reason that it won't affect them much!

I think that the world needs to rethink its modus operandi and hopefully some good will come out of these last few months, even if it is just a major tightening of everyone's purse strings and a pause in this incessant addiction to buying just for the sake of it. Let's stop this war, let's change our ways, let's save our world.

Biggi