I was Thinking, or Not

Just a few more things that are bothering me I visited the Tom’s of Maine web store and it had all these wonderful products on it that were made from natural sources. Petroleum is a natural source, it is a perception thing. So we call those products that have an organic basis natural.  Those that are handled in such a way as to elevate them to the “Organic” level means they have been grown in such a way as to not have pesticides or herbicides induced into their ecosystem.  There is already so much of the toxic chemicals in the soil and the air, that the term “Organic” really means that it contains only so many parts per million of certain toxic chemicals. Natural products are those that are generally believed to be from organic sources. These labels are tossed around and reinterpreted to fit whatever the marketing firms believe will sell on the mass market. Colgate® now has a beaver selling “natural” toothpaste on TV, while Tom’s of Maine has been selling natural to...

Just some things that were bothering me It just seems to me that there is an awful lot of crap going on, and no one seems to be paying any attention to what is going down. There is all this idea of what is natural, and what is good for you, and no one seems to be able to make the distinction. Now here I sit trying to get something done, and I am faced with this constant nag about why it is so difficult to see, that which is as plain as the facts that we breathe air. Not that natural is a difficult concept to understand, it is that natural can be applied to many things that are not precisely good for you. That is the basic problem, what is good for you. This should not be a difficult thing to figure out, really. We are a biological organism, and therefore if we continue to utilize non organic materials in and on our organism, we will either cease to be an organic organism, or we will cease. We wear polyester clothes, cook on Teflon®, eat food made with poly-plastics, and cle...

I stepped of the train at a quarter to nine; it was raining, not surprising. Why the hell do they have that small space between the train and where the canopy comes out from the station. Is there some sort of message there? We don’t want you to forget what the rain running down the collar of your coat feels like. So we leave a three foot span of the platform uncovered so you will remember the feeling of cold rain drops running down the back of your neck. Where was I, oh yea, stepping off the train.  Right I had traveled from Oswego to Albany on business. I didn’t take to the air much any more, too much could happen too fast. Besides you can’t think on a plane, they are too hurried, too busy. My friends say trains are slow and old. Besides they say isn’t that your competition. No, trains are not my competition, they are the logical regression, just as high-speed monorail is the logical progression from them. With the completion of the Oneida connection, we will have...