I Love the Future

I am thankful to be living in a time when we have the privilege to debate over health care. I love the future; so much better than the past.

As I read William Manchester’s A World Lit Only By Fire, two background thoughts continue to cycle through my mind:

1. I am thankful, ever so thankful, not to have lived at any time in human history prior to now; and
2. Those medieval and renaissance characters sure were a bunch of a**-holes...

Now here’s what I call a good weekend: After taking Max to a friend’s fourth birthday party on Saturday morning, Rose and I decided to drive the kids around the perimeter of the Ravenna Arsenal, just to see how creepy and weird it is to have 20,000+ acres of semi-contaminated land fenced off in the middle of otherwise ordinary Ohio. I guess they used to make TNT and other munitions there, primarily during WWII. To put it in perspective, the Arsenal covers more land area than the nearby city of Akron (population: 210,000+). Afterwards, heavy fried food at a local pub.

Every May 4th while I was in architecture school, hundreds (sometimes thousands) of people would congregate around our building to remember the horrible incident. Sadly, we were too busy working on our projects to really care. Academic life can be a sad existence at times.