I want to talk about Laura and my semi-annual trek to Washington D.C. to visit Laura’s sister and her kids. But first I have to mention a recurring dream that I have been having. And that is, I can play the guitar. In this dream I go out into crowds of people and I really lay down some licks on the guitar. So I want to know what this dream is supposed to be telling me. Maybe it is my message about eating the grains. I have to find a way to market it. While I am writing this, a gray bird with a red splotch at the top of its head slams into the window in my livingroom. And falls to the driveway dead. This is not the first time that this has happened. But a lot of the times the birds fall back and fly away. But many times I find dead birds in the driveway. The birds become mesmerized when they see their reflections in the reflection of the window. This day Laura and I got into a little argument when I mentioned that I was going to put a piece of red tape across the window. To save the birds from killing themselves. Laura thought that would make the house look worse than it already does. My argument was that the birds are more important than the appearance of my house. Eventually we will concrete everything and get rid of all the trees and birds. Maybe compassion has no place in the good ol’ U.S.A., the only superpower left. Something has to lie between this superpower conspicuous consumption and Third World misery. There would be so many jobs created in the shoe industry just by making a decent pair of shoes for the majority of people in the world who do not have any. Not to mention decent housing and clothes. Even an adequate supply of soap would keep some company busy for a lot of the people in the world who cannot even bathe appropriately. And of course food, it all begins with food. Everything else comes later. Which brings me back to my grains. I am pretty sure that I can make a profit selling dry grains for direct consumption even in the poorest countries. People smarter than me are going to find ways to save the planet while making money. There is really unlimited areas for economic growth in the third world and we can keep our standard of living. We are just going to have to get a little more creative in our thinking. If we can ever get enough food to the percentage of geniuses that are in any population, science will jump in larger strides than it is at present. The world could use a business model similar to Starbucks coffee. Only instead of coffee we could use grains and maybe even a whipped cream topping like a green tea frappacino. But seriously if any successful company can use the market to take over the world, somebody is going to do the same thing to feed the world for a profit. And once everybody is fed, education should come next. Then the whole world will benefit from the whirlwind of economic and scientific activity. I know that I got thrown off my initial premise for this blog by the bird smashing up against my window but these things happen. The next blog I will get into the trip to D.C. to visit family.