"Ignorance, when voluntary is criminal..."+

                                                      happy greeter at the boat launch this morning




wrote a blog last week about climate change etc.
it may have sounded negative

listening to one of my "Big Science" CD's and the
lecturer was on the subject of what makes humans
different from most other life on the planet
ADAPTABILITY
this is why people have inhabited every environmental
niche on the planet
and the human species will adapt to the changes now taking
place on this earth
not to fret!
and do not be discouraging to others
your hope will give hope to others

ONE OF MY FAVORITE POEMS EVER...

Say not the Struggle nought Availeth

BY ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

Say not the struggle nought availeth, 

     The labour and the wounds are vain, 

The enemy faints not, nor faileth, 

     And as things have been they remain. 

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; 

     It may be, in yon smoke concealed, 

Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,

     And, but for you, possess the field. 

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking 

     Seem here no painful inch to gain, 

Far back through creeks and inlets making, 

     Comes silent, flooding in, the main. 

And not by eastern windows only, 

     When daylight comes, comes in the light, 

In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, 

     But westward, look, the land is bright.

"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal,

and a person may properly be charged with

that evil which they neglected or refused to

learn how to prevent."  Samuel Johnson

Tycho Brahe's nose