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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> That is exactly why I am always looking out for the long-term.  I have six

> children and who knows how many unborn grandchildren who will have to take

> the world as it is handed to them, good or bad.

> 

> I cannot, for that reason, look only to what is good for my generation.

> It's the whole building bridges thing...

> 

> “The Bridge Builder"

> by Will Allen Dromgoole

> 

A folk singer that may not be known very widely but lived around here for a 
long time, John McCutchen, has  lyrics in one of his songs along the same 
sentiments:

Apple trees gowing on the mountain side, gone, gonna rise again
He planted the seeds just before he died, gone, gonna rise again
I guess he knew he'd never see
Red fruit hanging from the tree
But he planted the seeds for his children and me, gone, gonna rise again


Yet what I see all around me is that the geezerly generation is willing to 
impoverish their children's and grandchildren's generations to make things as 
easy as possible on themselves.

James