On the left coast

Look, this isn't about politics.  This year's family vacation has taken us to San Francisco and Monterey Bay, just north of some really serious forest fires (which we can smell every day).  But, that's a post for another time.  

This trip has been ridiculously amazing already.  We've been able to share things like humming birds at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, giant sequoias in Muir Woods, whales surfacing while we were driving down the PCH, and sea otters and a host of sea birds here in the Bay and in Pacific Grove.  

Ultimately, we've been able to share things that are disappearing, albeit slowly.  What you say?  Yeah, fool, global warming is for freaking real.  The Mouse in Florida is (if they get their way) everlasting.  However, the warming is for realz.  Right now, due to their ability to adapt to slightly warmer temperatures, sea urchins are doing the nasty at an incredible pace.  So much so that they're eating all of the kelp.  And, while the otters love themselves some Uni sashimi, they can't eat them fast enough, and there's fewer otters in the bay than in years past.  It's happening, and Uni is an acquired taste, am I right?  

Look, glaciers are melting, there's bleaching of the coral, and I want my kids to see some of what they will likely lose in their lifetimes.  Also, it's mind blowing how many elected officials have their fingers in their ears and their hands over their eyes so that they can appeal to the moron middle of the country.  Sorry to those friends of mine who live there.  The uneducated of this country are so easily manipulated that a failed businessman is inline to be the next president of the United States.  I just threw up in my mouth a little.  So, I guess this is about politics, but also about a diminishing opportunity, not just for me, but for our children.  It's time to do more and make this stuff important to our kids, because it's them who will hopefully carry the torch and fix what we broke.