I think it’s time to start thinking about the holidays. People are lining up at Walmarts to get a good deal on their playstations, some are getting robbed and shot while standing in line, but hey, as the ever philosophical Rumsfeld has noted: stuff happens.We watched a video from the library last night - [1] The End of Suburbia, Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream. Filmmaker/Director - Gregory Green, producer - Barry Silverthorn. It has a grim, but entertaining message for about 70 minutes - the catastrophe facing us in the form of oil depletion - peak oil - before it shifts gears and starts talking about how we can adjust and survive.

[2] End of Suburbia - It got two green thumbs up here at Small Blue Planet. Very entertaining,full of important information presented in a way that may help more folks understand what lots of us already know.

So, as we start talking among family about how to celebrate the holidays, me and mine are moving more and more towards an agreement to bring presence instead of presents to our gatherings. Maybe we don’t need to stand line to buy presence? Maybe we just need to invoke presence and give presence that nobody will want to return or trade?

Just sayin…