bill_the_cat

A possum died today. It was the first possum I've ever seen, and it was only to witness it's unpleasant demise. The tree was dangerous, it had to come down. The possum just happened to make it's home in the wrong spot. Not for the first time I came face to face with the terrifying reality of what it means to be human. We hold the life and death of the entire world in our hands, and we are all too often ignorant and reckless of the fact.
I want everyone to say a prayer for a little life lost. It is only one of many that will be readily forgotten tomorrow, but it was as precious a thing as your own life.