Is it just me or do the clouds look different than when I was a little boy in Concord California? I can remember these huge beautiful puffy white clouds that would just sort of ease their way from one side of the sky to the other. They would often take other forms like dragons, birds, animals or other mysterious shapes seemingly transforming right before my eyes. They were beautiful. They were way up there. High, high above. They were a source of certainty, a part of the world, or so it seemed.

But now those clouds are gone. They have been replaced by rapidly low rolling thunder clouds. Almost every rainy day, when we get a rainy day, they seem just angry. They come for just long enough to dump a few buckets of rain and maybe blow down a few trees and then they are just gone.

Gone are those beautiful magestic rolling clouds. Gone forever. Or at least for as long as what really matters. My five year old Mali will never know those sort of clouds. She is mostly afraid of the low rolling thunder clouds we have now. She has known more natural disasters in her short life than I had all the way to my fortieth birthday. My daughter only knows them to be scary and destructive.

Those white clouds which were the freinds of my youth are gone. I can’t remember the last time I saw one. It has been years. The only slow ones are very low in the sky, not way up there like before. And they seem sort of grey and washed out. Not the beautiful puffy white I remember. What have we done?

What have we done?

My first car was a 1967 Camaro SS. I loved that car. I bought it with money I saved working as a bus boy at Mr. Steak. Fixed it up. Raced it. Wrecked it. Fixed it again. Eventually sold it. I had many good times in that old 327 Chevy. I will never forget the feeling of power as it accelerated from zero to sixty in a few seconds. And talk about a chick magnet. Wow!

It is easy to understand our love affair with the automobile. But what will we do without water? Without food? The things that global warming is causing to happen will bring an end to everything if we don’t figure out a way to stop it.

I like John McCain’s reward offer. I don’t know why anyone would criticize such an idea. As a matter of fact, I don’t know why anyone would criticize any idea that might help. In as much as I understand this situation, I think we need every single idea, every single person, every single nation, every single company, every single community, everyone. We need everyone to do everything they can to find a way to get from point A to point B without raising to co2 levels any more than they are.

What do you think?

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or need anything at all. Stay well and God Bless You!

Your Servant,
 
Reverend Douglas Lloyd Hauptman Jr.