Hey Steve,
Great talking to you. You are doing great work for our state. I know it can be stressful dealing with the craziness. So don't let it get you down. Seems like the bad guys just came through and robbed raped and pillaged on their crusades for 8 years and here we are holding the bag...lol. I think we're starting to make progress. There is so much to undo from the Bush years. It may just get worse, who knows. Just trying to cheer you up, ha, ha. I doubt if this song will cheer you up much. I just can't beleive they did this to our mountains. When I lived in Tennesse I had a physical emptiness in the place that was normally reserved for the mountains in my heart. But I knew I could always come back. Now that place is partially, permanently empty, never to be refilled. It's hard to believe. It's just one more thing we have to deal with. We all grieve in our own ways for what has happened. Those of us that have a love for the mountains that offered us so much.
Would I die to save those mountains? At times I think I would. It seems to me they are just as important as human life, for they are such a part of life. How could I not risk my life for the precious God given gift that they represent and are? But it would be the last thing I would want to do. Instead I should go on trying to protect them from destruction.
Sorry, man, I meant to cheer you up...and just made myself sad...ha, ha.
I guess some more kids got arrested. They looked so cute. I guess the gov had to think twice about treating them the way he treated the last batch, who weren't so cute. I applaud these young people. It's about time we got a crop of idealists out of that bunch of no good baby boomers. The Reagan years produced an aberration: non-idealistic, money driven, materialistic youth. Glad to see some of them have awakened from their capitalistic Alex Keaton slumbers.
Tell Ken I said Hi. I see him often at these protests. I was there at Marsh Fork when they tried to shout him down. Good thing he doesn't hear very well. He's a hero to our state for the stand he has taken against MTR. Ask him if he thinks Before the Morning Dew would be a more appropriate state song reflecting our current state of affairs.
Hope to see you soon,
give my love to Franny,
hang in there,
Paige