(Bad Moon Rising...)

Has anyone else noticed that time is speeding up? That karma is becoming (as John Lennon prophesized) "Instant"? (Anyone remember Instant Karma? "Instant Karma's Gonna Get You...?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqP3wT5lpa4. BTW: On the "B" side of this little 45 was Yoko Ono's stunningly off-kilter "Who Has Seen The Wind", sung in her now infamous hypnotic, breathless whine... - I'd post the link but Yoko appears to have had it yanked off youtube due to "use violation rights").

       A couple of weeks ago, my friend, who works at the Main Library in San Francisco, had to evacuate the building TWICE due to bomb threats. During one evacuation she stayed behind with a disabled person in a wheelchair who couldn't exit because the elevators were off limits, believing this to be the humane and caring and appropriate thing to do, and was advised later by her employer she is required to leave the building and just leave disabled people there...HUH?       

 People drive too fast, tail-gate, and honk in an indignant, aggressive fashion if you slow down to turn into a gas station, as if one should never slow down...

 I notice a sense of increased "urgency" and agitation in and near Urban environments, and less friendly connections, less eye contact, less casual conversation, less community.

 This is why I am moving to a small, rural community near the beach. It just feels better over there, out of the way of....Well, just out of the way.

And that seems to be what a lot of people want these days. For other people to JUST GET OUT OF THE WAY.