... like smoking ... bad, but life goes on.

'where a bunch of old people watch everything slowly decay around them in genteel, civilized boredom. In Japan, there are far more adult diapers sold than baby ones any given year. That's kind of horrifying, but it isn't the end of the world by any stretch of the imagination.'

There is something very familiar about this. Welcome to my church, my neighbourhood, in a few years time - myself? I do not think Ecclesiastes is the best book in the Bible, but it does resonate the most strongly for me.

Pax et bonum.