A View of Green and Gold Playing Today
Before going to the Green Bay Packers, the green and gold, game today I checked out the cow dung to worm castings piles on the land at my son’s house. I saw that the worms in the cow dung compost were alive and well and that the existing compost pile had some fresh garden waste on it. I told my daughter-in-law, adult son who lives with us and had come up with us, my wife and grandsons about it, saying there was gold in their backyard ready to be dug up. I did mention it was ‘black gold’ in form of rich castings worms were making and could make from the cow dung and other compost. Since my wife could not do the shoveling due to her back, my daughter in law was going to the game with me, my older son was at the game working as a police officer and my other adult son has shown no interest in the ride up there, I did not expect the work to be done.
To my pleasant surprise when I returned after the game I found that my 12 year old grandson had given up most of the football game on TV to go out to shovel the worms, castings and composted cow dung onto the regular compost pile. I jokily told him that if this experiment of turning cow dung in worm castings works it could pay for his college education. He is now a straight A student in 6th grade in middle school. He smiled back at me and said “I don’t think so,” But who knows? Regular worm castings from compost now go for a high price in organic stores. How much more should worm castings coming from the rich composted cow manure be? My hope that young persons will discover the green and gold of life, which surrounds them, was renewed today.
On the way up my adult son and I got into a good conversation about politics, philosophy and economics. For some reason I started talking about “usury”, making money off of money not work. Like most young adults he was not too familiar with the word but once I explained it to him by using a simple example he understood and appreciated it. In my view excessive use of usury is at the heart of what is wrong with our modern form of capitalism.
“Main Street”, as the new cover of TIME magazine points out, “hates Wall Street.” I have not yet taken the time to read the article explaining “Why” but I can guess. People who work hard for their money do not like persons who hardly work to make lots of money off of working persons’ hard work and money. There are many wealthy sources in society that make lots of money from money without much work.
All the talk about reform of the health care system will not amount to much until we make health care a right not a source of profit for a few, not by their work but by their money.
I hope to take some steps to eliminate my participation in excessive usury but it will be difficult. It is a lot easier and probably more profitable to make rich organic castings from cow dung than to eliminate the capitalist greed of usury.
The picture above is my view of the big football game today from my cell phone camera. It is not as good as the view of the game that most saw on TV. But to be present at the game I had to give up a good view for the excitement and wonder of being present. To rid our society of excessive usury will take living without profits resulting from money not work. But like making cow dung into worm castings it might, in the long run, provide a gold mine.
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