Fast Times

Nature is not moving any faster than she ever was.month process.
The universe has its own galactic and omniversalWe need to get into harmonic balance with the
clock. But we humans, oh how we are simply runninguniverse.
out of control and faster than we should. Who's notWe're running faster than Mother nature and that's
siad, "There simply wasn't enough hours in the day".not a good thing. Our rate of change and destruction
To do what? Isn't there still 168 hours in every weekis way beyond NEED. We don't need a new car evey
and that's not changed in my life time. But here's theother year or every year though General Motors
crux of the problem.would disgree. We don't need a new house every
I grew up using a typewriters that put black ink onfive years, new furniture every year or so, new
white paper rather than this electronic pad andclothes every month, and so on.
mother board that I am producing electronicWe need to slow down, smell the Starbucks,and
messasge on. And that wasn't all that long ago.It'slisten to the cosmic music!
strange to see a 10-15 year old movie where peopleWe're destroying our ecosystem, depleting our
are putting these brick-like devices to their ears tounrenewable resources, and over-populating the
make call.planet at such exponential rates that water is
The cell phone invention has not been around all thatbeoming more expensive than oil- and so forth. We
long and yet every year (every quarter?) severalneed to abck off, slow down, and get IN SYNC with
new deices and formats come out. On the heels ofthe universe: adjusting or rate of material change to
the cell phone was the phone with a camera. We allwhat's NEEDFUL and not what our ego thinks is
ahd to have one of those! Now I we can email, surfNECESSARY!
the internet, know where we are on the planet (asGlobal warming is just on of the symptoms.
long as the Sun doesn't kill those GPS's).If we don't adjust soon, these FAST TIMES will
Nature isn't chaging that fast. Birds still fly at thecause us to careen out of control with unintended
same speeds and there's no way to bring a child intoevents beyond our scope of fixing or repair.
this world in a couple months or weeks- it's still a nine