Welcome to the last day of August. Nice and sunny. The temperature is still comfortable. We expect, according to the weather report, a slight increase over the next couple of days but still within the comfortable range. I have taken things easy this weekend. We, as I have often noted, don't really celebrate holidays much. Mom is the last of her generation as far as I can remember. There may be a couple of relatives we have lost contact with. My generation are all retirees now and dealing with health conditions that restrict our mobility to one extent or another. The next is somewhat scattered and, for the most part, involved with their own work and family lives. Getting a large group together is really difficult and has been for some time. So we usually just sit back and vegetate. We are doing that now watching a series of three back-to-back-to-back Premier League soccer games.
George Dillard has an interesting article on LOOKING THROUGH THE PAST. I knew about the Sumner-Brooks incident because I have spent a lot of time in history classes and reading history. I also knew that Brooks' cane was made of gutta-percha. I didn't know that the substance was the "plastic" of its day and only displaced after petroleum based plastic displaced it. By that time the gutta-percha trees that supplied the sap that was used to supply a glutenous market for things made from it were becoming rare. One thing a market economy has always been good at is depleting resources to meet demand.
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