How Will History Judge Us?

   It is so hard to see what is going on unless you are able to take a step back and get the panoramic view.  
   It’s like fighting the problem with an ever-increasing waist line.  Usually it goes unnoticed to the one who’s growing the belly until some old pictures of past times are pulled out of the scrapbook.
   “Wow!”  I’ve often responded when looking at old pictures of myself.  “Look how skinny I was back then.  How did I gain so much weight?”
   Eating and sitting on my butt is the short answer.  Every day that I over-eat and eschew exercise, I provide an opportunity for my belly to balloon.  That is why exercise is a billion dollar industry.  Trying to undo the effects of undisciplined behavior becomes very heavy lifting.  Loose living is not easily overcome.
   As I, and millions of others, slowly roll into our seventh decade upon this earth, it becomes harder and harder to blame others for the condition that America finds itself in.  No longer can we blame our parents’ generation, but we must come to understand that when the ‘torch was passed’ to a new generation of Americans, the responsibility for the fruit grown in the vineyard must now rest upon those of us who were supposed to be ‘tending the garden’ of America.
   We’ve dropped the ball. &nb ...