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Show quality of the very air your brats are breathing and the a they live by, to say nothing of disturbing the unmolested areas around them. Meanwhile, most governments, leaders of one group or another, who might be able to do something constructive about the problems you have practically articulated for them, are mired in a swamp of power-lust and greed; too locked into their taboos, cult dictators and myths to do the job. Between theology, fechnalepy. and no ewleds: y everyone’s goose is on the way to being cooked. First thing to be done, to correct, turn around, or excise a worldwide problem, is to make your kids understand that it exists. But how many something about it? Again, not enough. take it to heart and try to do_ So, I don’t think you have to worry much longer, Mom. The maijority’s refusal to look in the face of what’s really going on has triggered their own demise, and that great leveler you gave them, Good Ol’ Common Sense, has atrophied for lack of use. Everything they have, invent and use has gone from simplicity to a tangle of complicated, wasteful excess. With nothing to keep it in check, momentum keeps pushing them farther and faster along that same trajectory. I’d say they're pretty much past the point of no return. Most of them . are sheep, another bunch asleep, the Thwarted Visionaries rendered helpless. Like all the kids before them, greed and sloth will finish them off. I wonder why your children keep trying to solve their problems from the top down? Why not begin at the root of the matter? If there weren't so many of them, maybe they wouldn't be at each others’ throats all the time. Really, Mom, you've got to start thinking catastrophically. Excluding a small minority of that fat little continent along your Americas ribcage -the techno bunch, the ones that take the most and make the most mess-—can’t even take the time away from their bewitching machines to understand the power in your magnificent sunset, or witness your creations with the awe and respect they deserve. They’ve decided - you're there just to be used, to amuse them, to administer to their whims alone, every other thing be damned. Heh-heh...when will they learn that you and IJ are related-are in kahoots and have a - partnership that alters global climate change? That when they rend a few more holes in your scarf, I'll burn the hell out of them! _ Sorry to sound so negative, Mom, but if your progeny don’t get on it within the next couple of decades, their situation will be irreversible. It takes them ten year to even have a constructive idea and circulate it; the next ten to mull it over and plan it, and yet another ten to set it in motion, make it work. That’s three decades. I doubt they have that much time. If they haven’t got it together by then Mom, give it to ‘em. Scratch that itch. Knock ‘em off. They don’t deserve better. I agree it’s sad that you can’t discriminate-the good ones will have to go with the bad- that’s your way of dealing. But you need to set your rivers free. Bring back the wooly mammoth and the saber tooth tiger-those guys had class. Quit dickering with these pipsqueaks. Show ‘em who’s boss. I’m with you all the wey, so is Sister Moon. She’s had enough of them already! Much love, and good luck! Your Sun Katie Lee's email address is: katiedid@verdenet.com GET WELL, KATIE LEE! WE LOVE YOU... Katie Lee IS Wonder Woman; unfortunately Wonder Woman can't fly. The Incomparable Katie Lee took a terrible fall on September 9, which would have been The End for most people half her age. My 81 year old heroine shattered her jaw, cheek and both wrists and endured hours of surgery. 1am happy to report, however, that she is as ornery as ever. Katie is healing faster than her doctors thought possible and I expect Ms. Lee will be playing her guitar and giving us hell in a very short while...if not sooner. We love you Katie...JS ON THE WEB SITE... www.canyoncountryzephyr.com In the coming months. The Zephyr will be expanding the scope of its web site. Features not available in the print version Eee THE ZEPHYR GALLERY featuring the works of acclaimed artist JOHN DEPUY _ and "The Glen Canyon Collection" By JIM STILES GLEN CANYON: In words & photographs A collection of past Zephyr articles by Ken Sleight, Katie Lee Rich Ingebretsen, Dave Wegner, Jim Stiles, and others... And Glen Canyon photographs from the Charles Kreischet Collection GCI FALL CONFERENCE... JOIN us October 12: Dinner & Silent Auction, 6PM to 9PM Special guests include Dave Foreman &... the incomparable Katie Lee Tickets: $90 October 13: Discussions on Dams & Rivers, Union Building, University of Utah All Day Pass, $25 (includes lunch) . COW CANYON TRADING POST Keynote Speech by Dave Foreman The River Wild 7PM, Fine Arts Auditorium, U of U $5/person or Free with all day pass. Contact GCI at 928.556.9311 or -www.glencanyon.org for more information GLEN CANYON the way it was... WL MT merer(6 Melee tLe Bluff, Utah 84512 435.672.2208 cowcanyn@sanjuan.net |