This morning, after breakfast, I took a walk with my parents and my grandparents, and I'm pretty sure we walked down the road to nowhere. It was a kind of dirt path/horse trail/atv trail. I'm with family in southern Nevada and it's pretty desolate here. They like to pretend this community is a picturesque look into the idyllic, agrarian past dreamed of by Jefferson, but the truth is they are getting pretty advanced. My grandparents have dish and wireless Internet which is why I can grace you with this post even though I am kind of in the middle of nowhere.
Interestingly, in his anthem, Ozzy discusses a theme that I've thought a lot about. He says, "The wreckage of my past keeps haunting me...I guess I'd do it all again." I think we all need to live with no regrets, we need to live so that when death comes we can say that we would do it all again. If it's too late, then live that way from today forward. Even if your past is like a wreck, and you wouldn't do it all again, make the rest of your life a pleasant drive down the interstate (with no construction). It is possible to wipe the slate clean, and that makes it infinitely easier to look back with pleasure on your past.
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Yeah, I think that the ideas Jefferson held, that the common agrarian man would be the conscience of America are still going strong down in rural Nevada. Not in Vegas of course (I think they elect Democrats there!?!). Love the Ozzie of course, his daughter was on Dancing with the Stars, and did great, which I could not believe. They had a couple of vintage Ozzie shots, that's great TV.
Ozzy really is more lucid in song than in speech. Maybe there's a life lesson in that: Don't do drugs. Or what ever he did.
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