Driver's License Photo

New technology never ceases to amaze me. Recently I had to get a new photo taken for my driver's license. Not only was the photo processed instantaneously, but it morphed into a photo of my mother! How do they do that?

The Woman Who Follows...

Why Does A Deere Have To Be Green?

Recently, while traveling north on Delaware SR 1, my attention was riveted to a passing flatbed trailer. Its cargo contained a tractor with a front loader; but it was unlike any tractor I have ever seen. It was blue! And not just any shade of blue; periwinkle blue! I wanted one. I had to have one! The idea of a pretty tractor made my mind run wild.

Suddenly, I thought of all the rural scenes I had observed all my life with nothing but green farm equipment. Green! Ugly, garish, bright John Deere green. And I found myself wondering, why? Why do all tractors in America have to be green?

What if a farmer had a periwinkle tractor and with it he pulled a disker in a beautiful complementary shade of red/orange? Or a baler in an analogous color, say celadon green? Or a magenta manure spreader??? Suddenly my vision of the countryside was changing rapidly.

And maybe, just maybe, what if these wonderfully colored pieces of farm equipment actually attracted women to this occupation? If you ask me, there are far too few women farmers. It seems to me that women have a natural instinct for animal husbandry and growing things. I’m sure there are so few in the field because their color choices are just down right sparse and ugly.

Look, I’ve prepared visual aids:

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

And is this the worst kind of stereotyping or what?

Come on! Put the woman behind the wheel and in colors that she likes! 

I mean, really?

Haha!

Love and Love Alone

I'm intrigued with social media and I relish the 700 plus friends I have on Facebook. No, I don't know them all personally. And I take delight in the cacophony of ideas and images that daily spill across my laptop screen.


Sometimes I learn something, sometimes I'm inspired, and sometimes I find affirmation for my own deep rooted beliefs.


Just today, a friend of mine posted the following quote from Tom Robbins novel, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates. I regret to say that I never read the book, but after reading this little snippet, you can best believe that it is now on my Amazon wish list. I have never before read a paragraph that completely sums up my feelings about life.

“The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.”
― Tom Robbins

Wow!

Under The Heading Of People Are Just Weird

True text dialog taken from my phone:

Unrecognized local number (ULN): Hi

Me: Who is this?

ULN: Doug

Me: I'm afraid you've texted a wrong number and this is not the first time.

ULN: Why

(Of course that just left me speechless and blocking the number.)

The Smell Of Sky

The fragrance of my favorite air freshener is called "Linen & Sky." So, of course, it had me wondering, just exactly what does the sky smell like? I never noticed any particular odor to the sky before. And just exactly how did Procter & Gamble capture its essence? Did they somehow extract essential oil of sky? And since Procter & Gamble is located in Cincinnati, is this a special sky smell from there? Does the sky smell differently above Antarctica? Does it smell differently at different atmospheres? I guess the next time I fly somewhere I'll have to open the window and find out.

j/k

Band Aids Never Cure Anything...

... they only stop the bleeding.

Am I the only one who thinks there are three basic things in our society to which band aids are being applied instead of a cure being found?

And by cure, I mean these institutions need to be completely leveled to the ground and built back up from scratch.

They are our healthcare system, the internal revenue service and public education.

Am I really the only one who feels this way?