THE SUICIDE MACHINE AT WORK

It's going to be a very interesting year in my life. The landlords have decided to knock down the building that has been the home of our beautiful salon now for 14 years. It works out better for their "bottom line" to sell the property to a bigger operation then it does to keep it a beautiful salon and a pediatric office. I understand that, it's how our system works.

It will be interesting to see who's "bottom line" will now be hurt in light of the competition that will be happening on that corner with these changes. Walgreen's Pharmacy moved in across the street from us a few years ago. Just another one of their big new buildings that happen to be going up it seems every mile or so. The drug industry seems to have a bright future ahead of them, at least it seems?

From what we have heard another national pharmacy chain has decided to put up another big new building in the space that will be created once the building we are in is leveled. It seems these two are poised to go head to head and see if there is enough people needing drugs to keep them both profitable or will one emerge as the "top dog" and run the other one off that corner or out of business completely? We will have to wait and see.

When we leased our space 14 years ago we were paying $7:50 per sq. ft. Today we are paying $18. The spaces my brother has looked at in the area so far are running closer to $35 per sq. ft. How did this trend ever get spun as a positive thing and ever get sold to the public in a way that led anyone to believe that it was sustainable?

We will be okay and will figure something out but there are many that just get eaten alive by this machine that fights to keep the upward growth trend going. The sacrificing of the many smaller people will continue as long as the survival of the larger suicide machine remains the focus. And the lie that it is better for us all in the long run. Question is...how long will the illusion last?

As I mentioned a few posts ago, I am presently reading PLANTHROPOLOGY The Myths, Mysteries, And Miracles Of My Garden. It so beautifully explains why I garden and why it does to me what it does. We were meant to love and care for this beautiful planet and each other...but instead have created a machine that we now serve, that rapes the earth for all it has to give as if it is here to serve the machine, and in the process we rape ourselves. I want to live as free of that machine as is possible. Gardening seems to be a better way to accomplish living with and loving our Creator and that which he created, my neighbor and this beautiful earth...than does being a supporter of the suicide machine.

"Nature's art is easy to see, and artists and artisans still, as they have for ages, depict plants in paintings and use them for garden designs or as motifs for decoration. In the mid-19th century, a group of artists moved to break down the class distinction that kept art from being available to all people. I feel a kinship with these artists who believed that beauty and nature could be the salve to treat the wounds inflicted by the Industrial Revolution; today, the injury is being caused by the industrialization of the planet." Ken Druse...Planthropology