Nicole's comments about eggs has had me thinking.
Of course I know that any mass-production of animal foodstuff is apt to occur in conditions that are not favorable to the animal. But I've not seen it, so I've allowed myself to ignore reality in favor of happy tastebuds. My favorite spouse is not as sensitive about such things as I am, so I have to really push to get her to accept things like living at least a half-life of vegetarianism. She's hard to convince that eggs deserve much thought.
I made a phone call yesterday to a long-ago employee (20 years or more) who now lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I used to send her a birthday card or at least an e-card every January 2 (her birthday...of course), but I managed to lose her email address a few years ago and just got lazy and stopped. The current floods in Iowa and environs, especially Cedar Rapids, got me thinking about her, so I looked up her number and called. She and her husband are find, I'm glad to report, but they're stunned by the devastation all around them. Hundreds and hundreds of blocks of their city are under water. The Iowa floods are reported to be the worst in 500 years. What a catastrophe, caused in large part I'm sure by humankind's rape of the planet.
Now the good news. I haven't killed myself or anyone else (the latter is much more likely, given my moods of late). OK. That's enough for now.
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