No excuses. I've decided to give blogging another try. Summer has been flying by and unbelievably the end is too close. Yesterday, we bought all of Andrew's school supplies and school clothes. I can't believe how much a few inches on the bottom of a pant leg can add to the price of a pair of jeans. It's a scheme.
One of my callings in Church is as the ward Preparedness Specialist so excuse me if my mind is on "the end of the world." I was reading one of Jack London's (White Fang, Call of the Wild)books the other day entitled The Scarlet Plague. It is about a post-apocalyptic world after a terrible virus has wipped out most of the people on Earth and the land has reverted to wilderness and wildlife such as the Indians and perhaps Lewis and Clark or trappers would have seen it. The part that caught my attention and my dark sense of humor was that the devistating scarlet plague took place in the year 2012 and 2013. What a thing to stumble upon a book about the end of the world when the book was written in 1912 and have it pick your near moment on Earth to end it all. The book sets the world's poputation at about 8 billion which is about what it is today. What a good guess. However airplanes in the book travel at an astonishing 200 miles an hour--slow-pokes compared to today.
Anyway, the book is about an old man one of the few survivors who lived through the plague and whose time is growing short as he tries to teach his teenage grandsons wisdom and knowledge from when the earth was still civilized. So far it is very interesting. His son's are very primative in their humor. They tease their old grandfather in ways that are almost cruel. But it has some interesting thoughts and poses interesting questions one of which is--how far can man fall without knowledge, books and wisdom. What if there had been no Bronze Plates when Lehi and Nephi brought their families to the Promised Land? How much farther would they have fallen and how much more quickly?
One of my callings in Church is as the ward Preparedness Specialist so excuse me if my mind is on "the end of the world." I was reading one of Jack London's (White Fang, Call of the Wild)books the other day entitled The Scarlet Plague. It is about a post-apocalyptic world after a terrible virus has wipped out most of the people on Earth and the land has reverted to wilderness and wildlife such as the Indians and perhaps Lewis and Clark or trappers would have seen it. The part that caught my attention and my dark sense of humor was that the devistating scarlet plague took place in the year 2012 and 2013. What a thing to stumble upon a book about the end of the world when the book was written in 1912 and have it pick your near moment on Earth to end it all. The book sets the world's poputation at about 8 billion which is about what it is today. What a good guess. However airplanes in the book travel at an astonishing 200 miles an hour--slow-pokes compared to today.
Anyway, the book is about an old man one of the few survivors who lived through the plague and whose time is growing short as he tries to teach his teenage grandsons wisdom and knowledge from when the earth was still civilized. So far it is very interesting. His son's are very primative in their humor. They tease their old grandfather in ways that are almost cruel. But it has some interesting thoughts and poses interesting questions one of which is--how far can man fall without knowledge, books and wisdom. What if there had been no Bronze Plates when Lehi and Nephi brought their families to the Promised Land? How much farther would they have fallen and how much more quickly?
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