We are working near what is called Tepee Table Top.  The Caldwells camp way up there for Tusas, and our Sister's ashes are interred there, which felt a little strange, but in my mind even as the buzz of the saw through the Peltor hearing protection system,I was speaking to Jill, suggesting this wouldn't hurt, I just needed to clear this little tree out of the way for a better view, or to let more Winter light in. Jackson says that a cremated soul passes to the heavens, whereas a buried body allows ancestors to more freely communicate with the living.  Honestly, I was taken aback by this concept.

I've been watching a lot of horror movies recently.  It seems there is a recurring theme: The soul is trapped in the body, in the ground, in the casket, and it doesn't seem all that thrilled about it. Our father is considering whether he wants to be buried or cremated. I've been pushing for cremation, because that is what I want when my time is up. Cremation I believe is easier for everyone, but Jackson has a good point too. We have the land, Henry says he only wants a wooden casket. Dad isn't superstitious,  plus he doesn't watch horror movies.

The philosophical question begs to be answered; If a person doesn't watch horror movies, are they still subject to the possibility of the horror? You know the whole tree falling in the woods and nobody is there to hear it concept. The bottom line is I still want to be cremated, even if it means I won't be around to commune with the living. Anyway, I've never communicated with the dead, so I guess I don't know what I'm missing, A funeral Pyre would be cool, but who could I trust to perform it? I mean what if they didn't put enough wood on the fire and it only cooked me. "Quick get the truck, we need more pyrewood."

All kidding aside,  we watched a pretty good documentary after work yesterday, seriously solemn, this one was. Pete Postlethwaite  narrated , "The age of Stupid." All the Climate Change deniers and wind farm protesters will not like this movie one little bit. However if one is able to see with open mind,  issues such as are discussed in this post-apocalyptic review of the years leading up to 2053 when cascading CO2 levels (calculated by scientists which I believe are correct) irreversibly raise the Earth's  temperature  by four degrees, causing the extinction of the human race, as well as most life forms on Earth, and all because we argued, instead of working together to reduce fossil fuel use.

This documentary is a lot of things, much of which is grim, and yes it doesn't rely on a lot of science to prove issues one way or another. The story is about emotions. The story about the man that builds wind farms in Great Britain, attempts with a very good and sincere heart to move England away from fossil fuel dependency and further catastrophic  greenhouse gas production  toward a future not dependent on burning coal or oil to create electricity, is quashed at every  juncture by  local people  who do not want the turbines in their view. 

One of the  wind farm protesters  says," Of course I am concerned about Global Warming, I love the planet, I just don't want these turbines in our back yard." This wasn't some unfathomable corporation building this wind farm consisting  of 18 turbines, it is a guy who cares about the planet. I don't know how much is fiction or if any of the documentary is fiction, it all looked pretty real to Nell and me.  A compromise was to build only 9 turbines capable of powering 11,000 homes, the locals still voted "No."

I have to tell my readers that I am now shifting my favor towards letting them build those wind farms in Benal, or anywhere they want to, right up here in our beautiful view if it will help the planet, and make people think about the vast quantity of energy wasted in our current unsustainable lifestyle. I mean think about it, when you go anywhere in the country, or look out the window from here towards the Sangre de Cristo mountains, what is the first thing you see? Power lines. Did anyone question whether this was going to mess-up the view? No, in fact those are our power lines, we put them there, becasue we couldn't afford to bury them.