Nature and humans

The death toll is at 55,000 and is still increasing from the quake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean. We will have thousands more secondary deaths, I'm sure. It takes time to get enough relief supplies to get them to their final destination. Disease will surely follow. "Rescue" workers are finally getting into Sumatra, the island closest to the 9.0 quake. It's been leveled.

This is a huge natural disaster. And it is the scale that is the story, not the quake itself or the tsunami.

In Southern California right now, the rain is falling in dangerous amounts. We will experience flash floods in all the usual places.

Our planet is constantly handing us disasters big and small. There is nothing to do to stop them. Only to do risk assessment and prepare for what is likely in the near future.

We will mourn the deaths of so many to this natural disaster as we mourn the deaths from previous disasters.

When will we think war is a disaster?

Defining

Defining moments.
Testing one's mettle.
Living up to one's own expectations.

What then if one succeeds?
What then if one fails?

Deciding one's life.
Cutting off alternatives.
Living the life that's left.

Spreading what seeds one has.
Hoping for a crop one is fond of.
Harvesting what there is.

Private universe.
Delusional happiness.
Illusional unhappiness.

Coexisting alone.
Pretending one equals two.
Declaring two is one.
Attempting no proof.

Relativity unwanted.
Surety demanded.
Birth to death ballistics.

A course charted.
A deaf helmsman.
Shoals.
Unattended lighthouse.

Pleasure stolen.
Artificial warmth.
Drugs locally produced.
Schedule one body.
Personal opiates.

Flesh.
Animal.
Vegetable.
Stone heart.

Entrails.
Spilled guts.
Missed calls.
Bad calls.
No instant replay.
Forgotten score.

Discordant score.
Agitation.
Won't dance.
Will scream.

Lights flash.
Eyes close.
Spiritual migraine.

Play.
Imagine.
Faking it.
Not making it.

Finding love.
Finding life.
Finding ghosts.
Creating myths.

Humanity.
Urban Legend.
Idiot apes.

Opposing thumbs.
Opposing hearts.
Opposing lives.

Dieing for is still dead.
Living for is still dead.

Pigments.
The color of living.
Just the play by play.
Nobody wins.

Tequila emptiness.
Better and worse.
Reality isn't real.
Illusion isn't delusion.

Vibrations aligned.
Standing waves.
Power to destroy.
Power to radiate.

Filling the hours.
Personal lies.
Public truths.
Filling the holes.
Emotional graves.

First breath.
Last breath.
Same side.
Same coin.
Wooden nickel.
Spent in the same place.

Dry powder.
Musket against magic.
Ball wasted.
All fall down.
Powder lost.

Meaning.
Defining.
Testing.
Failing.

What then?

Life Insurance

AAA sends me a "must have" life insurance offer from time to time. I do not want life insurance. It doesn't keep me alive, after all.

What I want is living insurance.

It pays off when living isn't working out very well.

I'd be interested in that!

Hunting

I am hunting for a job. When I find one, I intend to kill it and leave it's body as carrion.