Scary Thoughts

Today we are spending the day with our grandkids to celebrate Halloween -- a day, it is said, when "spirits can make contact with the physical world, and when magic is most potent."

Hopefully, the spirits of the perpetrators and victims of fascist pasts will appear tonight to warn America that we are on a very scary, un-democratic path.

Children and their parents should be frightened tonight -- like no other time in their lives:

• The climate is heating up;
• The Earth is being polluted and raped for profit;
• More and more little children are suffering from a lack of access to health care, education, untainted food and toys;
• Presious little minds are being numbed and dumbed-down with senseless and addictive television shows, movies and video games;
• Endless wars that enriches the military industrial complex threaten to overtake our children's lives as political powers vie for control over oil and other finite and dwindling natural resources.
  

As we walk with our costumed grandkids through their neighborhood, we will wonder and worry that their hopes and dreams will never be realized.

More frightening than any monster -- real or imagined -- is the reality that their future and the future of the planet will be fraught with man-made perils that our minds can barely conceive.