Shuttered

ignoring warnings is an invitation to the unwanted

Many shops along main street, any street, are shuttered. Mine made meals good as home. Now I have the cooking covered. At home, where the fry pan is. Where I rendezvous with the barbecue and self-sufficiency slogans boast of necessity.

Necessity, that is, with relative ease. Clean water, sanitizer, online rapport. Early hour shopping for the silver cohort. Living sci-fi without the fiction. A silent spring. Global warming. The signs were there with ample warning.

Warning of economic and social disparity. The over-take of biotech. All but invisible in times of prosperity. Their message arrived; we read and forgot. Not the end of the world. The world will survive. We might not.

About Me

Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and offers free critical thinking and character development courses online.

“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”