Growing old

Today as I drove through the city picking up stuff for the job my dad and I are working on I would catch glimpses of the mountains with the sun shining off of there snow tipped peaks. The idea came to mind that I was watching them grow old.
I have been looking at the fall season differently then ever before. I have usually loved this time of year for it's sense of things passing on and letting go. Yet this year I have not watched in the same appreciation. All I see is the beginning of a season of brown. Calgary only turns brown once the leaves are gone and this makes me sad. If it went to snow and stayed that way I could handle it so much better.
Watching the mountains grow grey with age on the other hand is making me smile. Just thinking about it makes me happy. On the weekend I went for a hike with my parents and I told them I smelt snowboarding in the air. Truly I can smell the snow and the cold and it makes me think of riding down in sheer bliss watching the world pass by in it's white glory.
So as the leaves turn and fall to the ground I cannot find the lesson from it as I do most years but watching the mountains frost over is a most wonderful thing. I will gladly let the years pass me by as long as I can grow old together with those lofty peaks of Gods great handy work.

Have you read the news? Environmentally friendly war heads!

Okay, this is becoming too much. Yesterday as I read the funnies in the Sunday paper (these are my personal favorites of the paper as I find they may be the only thing that makes any sense to me any more) My dad starts to read from the portion of the paper that he held in his hands.
The first thing he reads to me makes me think he some how snuck a page of the funnies from me.
"'BAE systems, one of the the world's biggest arms manufacturers, is designing a new generation of 'green' munitions, including 'lead-free' bullets and rockets with reduced toxins'"
My reaction? "Ha Ha! What?"
Dad, "'It also wants to cut the dangerous compounds in its jets, which it warns "can harm the environment and pose a risk to people"'"
Me, "no way, as if. Of course they are a risk to people they are made to kill them."
The paper goes on to talk about how they even plan to create '"quieter warheads to reduce noise pollution and grenades that produce less smoke". Going as far to see if explosives can be "turned into manure. "
At one place Debbie Allen the director of corporate social responsibility at BAE systems is quoted to say "Weapons are going to be used and when they are, we try to make them as safe for the user as possible, to limit the collateral damage and to impact as little as possible on the environment."
I ask you, what about the people they are being used on? Is it safer for them because now when they are dying they can at least know their remains won't be full of lead poison? "Oh good now I am dead but it wasn't as loud so my ears would still work if I was alive" Yeah for the plants and trees all around there is less air pollution but..... Can I ask........Where have all the people gone?

Foto work making me cry

Last night I was working on a presintation I will be showing at my church and it was taking me right back to India. While I was there I Would take recordings from the radio on my MP3 player so I am using them as the music behind the slid show, even now I am listening to a recording I took of a few of my friends on the platform in India. There were young boys there that we were visting with. I call them the Train boys as they live in the station and on the trains. Traveling from station to station making money begging.
Though we spent less then two hours with them I fell in love with them. I wanted to take them home and adopt them. I wanted them to know love. They are from very broken homes where love for them is rare.
I fell in love with India. I fell in love with it all. Seeing those fotos again reminded me of how much I love that country, of how I want to take part in touching the lives of the people.

Ha Ha Ha

I went on another hike today. That makes four in four weeks. I bet you want to hear about it too. and Photos? yup I took lots of shots.
Not tonight though, you'll all have to wait......