Finally, a crisp fall day.
In "Lord of the Rings" the Hobbits love their shire and never want to stray from it, but some are called to rescue the world, and they have to leave.
There is a scene in "Band of Brothers" in which the men of Easy Company are riding in an open truck, just after the German Army has surrendered, and the Germans are marching north down the divider strip, as the Americans are riding past them on the road, headed south.
Richard Winters, Easy Company's commander remarks admiringly, "Look how they march in step, defeated, but still disciplined."
But David Webster, a private, stands up and screams at the Germans, "You servile scum! What were you thinking? Dragging us away, thousands of miles from our homes, just to defeat you!"
He has seen the concentration camps, the monstrous evil the Germans, whether they knew about it or not, were fighting for.
Sometimes, happy as you may have been in your own world, the larger world demands your attention.
Mr. Trump and his hideous minions may yet call forth such an effort, but today, this Hobbit was happy to simply breathe in the clean New Hampshire air, to bicycle along the roads past the Hurd farm, with its pigs and goats and cows and llamas and past the several horse farms, and past the apple orchards, watching men in their plaid shirts and suspenders work on their cedar shingled siding, or on their roofs, past women joggers in their Lycra leggings and their ear phones, over the covered bridge and over the Taylor river as it flows to the sea.
It was one of those day you just give thanks you live in New Hampshire and you leave the fighting to come to another day.
In "Lord of the Rings" the Hobbits love their shire and never want to stray from it, but some are called to rescue the world, and they have to leave.
There is a scene in "Band of Brothers" in which the men of Easy Company are riding in an open truck, just after the German Army has surrendered, and the Germans are marching north down the divider strip, as the Americans are riding past them on the road, headed south.
Richard Winters, Easy Company's commander remarks admiringly, "Look how they march in step, defeated, but still disciplined."
But David Webster, a private, stands up and screams at the Germans, "You servile scum! What were you thinking? Dragging us away, thousands of miles from our homes, just to defeat you!"
He has seen the concentration camps, the monstrous evil the Germans, whether they knew about it or not, were fighting for.
Sometimes, happy as you may have been in your own world, the larger world demands your attention.
Mr. Trump and his hideous minions may yet call forth such an effort, but today, this Hobbit was happy to simply breathe in the clean New Hampshire air, to bicycle along the roads past the Hurd farm, with its pigs and goats and cows and llamas and past the several horse farms, and past the apple orchards, watching men in their plaid shirts and suspenders work on their cedar shingled siding, or on their roofs, past women joggers in their Lycra leggings and their ear phones, over the covered bridge and over the Taylor river as it flows to the sea.
It was one of those day you just give thanks you live in New Hampshire and you leave the fighting to come to another day.
Sounds as though you are really enjoying the day - and life! Enjoy!!
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