I have lived through a very interesting period of time. When I was youngster I used to save a carrot for the milkman's horse, and rush out to give him a treat as the milkman delivered to our house. Now, my Blackberry alerts me anytime one of my email accounts receives a new message.
My personal life carries parts of the old and new everywhere I look. I spend a fair bit of my time doing webwork on the sites I have created for my listings, but then I head our into our livingroom and throw more wood on the fire to banish the cold of a Canadian winter from our home.
As I do this, and identify myself with humans who have burned wood for 10000 years or more, but I find myself doing a quick check for environmental concerns. Environmental is a word that only came into usage part way through my lifetime, and only came to the forefront of our concerns in the past few years.
Old wood heat ... new concerns.
So, is the flame hot enough to reduce particulate emissions? Check.
Are we only using recycled products (slabwood) so that no trees are being cut to heat our home? Check.
Are we only releasing carbon into the atmosphere that would be released anyway if this wood was left to rot on the forest floor? Check.
I am grateful for being born when I was, for seeing so many changes in our transition to our new society. I am grateful for my connection with a past of 61 years ago, and I am also grateful for the chance to help create a better future for my grandkids born in the last couple of years.
This is an amazing time to be alive.
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