Or not running for Mayor, as the case may be.
I could have been a contender, as Marlon said.
10 seconds too late with the paperwork, as opposed to one week too late with the citizenship (2014). Getting closer. Maybe third time lucky.
Not that I necessarily want to actually be the mayor, you understand, because it’s a difficult and onerous job, no doubt, but surely it is worthy to participate in the process of democracy? If indeed, democracy is what we have?
Had I become mayor (which I won’t), I would have invited Donald up for a game of golf. I would like to discuss climate change with him, because we have quite opposing views on the matter. Donald thinks, or says, that it is a hoax perpertrated by the Chinese government. I have worked with various scientists in the Antarctic and Arctic, over the last 34 years, and I firmly believe that humans are a major cause of current day climate change.
Donald, for the moment, has more sway over global affairs than I do. (Let’s be realistic about that.) But, if, like Les, he were to slip and fall into the Columbia River, that could all change in a short time. It’s cold water; a person might not last long.
Where does all the time go? Us humans are pretty insignificant specks in the realm of geologic time. In a 100 years from now, we’ll all be gone, though hopefully our descendants will live on. Or at least some forms of life will live on. The birds and bees and insects, even though they are being currently decimated at a great rate.
Wouldn’t it be good to turn back the clock 200 years, and start again more carefully? Perhaps no damning of the rivers,and no cultural genocide. The salmon and the caribou would be healthier and happier. People too.
We are all related.
