Lilacs

After 13 years of living in this house, my lilac tree has finally bloomed, and most spectacularly. My living room is redolent in the sweet aroma. My mother used to love lilacs and now so do I.
I can hardly take credit for this miracle since I did nothing botanically creative to cause it. So I don't know why I am blithering about it. I am just happily relishing the sweet aroma and heavenly color of these beautiful blooms.
They take my mind ( for a second or two) off the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico.

I can't get it through my thick head that the people, who are closest to and intimately effected by this spill are the people who are clammoring for more drilling in the Gulf. What is wrong with these people? They can see, feel, smell and taste this destruction and yet they must want more. They don't seem to understand that altho they may make some little money by working out there, they are destroying their bodies and will probably die young and their children and children's children will be effected forever. How can people be so dumb?

Will they ever learn to vote for their own interests rather than what some slimy politicians tell them to do?