Ordinary Problems :: Extraordinary Times

Ok, enough. I've been sitting on the pity pot for a week now. I'm having as a co-worker put it yesterday a cathartic time in life. I responded, "Yea, alot of people are having cathartic problems. I know I'm not the only one." He put into plain words. "We all have ordinary problems..."

Today's headlines put that into clearer focus than anything:

"BUSH GETS POWER TO STRIKE IRAQ"

Ordinary problems. Can't pay bills. Don't know where I'm working next month. I still don't have a mattress after more than three years of the futon.

People like Katrina are sitting somewhere fussing over extraordinary problems. Am I shipping out? Can I shoot accurately enough? Will I be able to do it when the time calls for it?

Will I come back? And how do I say good-bye?

A whole other range of problems and thinking. As war looms over us, the Blue Angels rip through the October Skies of this Blessed City of St. Francis readying themselves for Sunday's show. Bush says he hasn't decided to bring us into the war. Pete Stark tells the Chron, " You know the President wants blood. He wants war. That's why we're going through this."

All I want is ordinary problems for everyone...