Grumpy Old Hippie Pt 1

Rants on life and these times have been percolating along during wakeful hours for some time now. I have been retired for a little over a year and a half. Some issues have come into clearer focus while others seem to have faded into a fog of some parts lack of relevance and some parts simple forgetfulness.

Sitting to write this, the first question I feel I need to answer for myself and possibly for the reader is why would anyone want to read what I have to say, especially if it is just me being grumpy? How can the expression of my complaints make anything, or anyone better? If you stop reading here I will not be offended. If you read on you might be offended by some of my points of view or some of the topics I choose to rant on. My point of view is my own yet also a voice of my generation and the experiences that helped form many like me. I have to believe there is an audience for this now and here. Your comments below will be appreciated and help answer this question.

This part one piece is to give us both some perspective on how this can develop. I want to let fly on a couple of issues right now and all at once but our sequential language constructs do not work that way. Maybe I need to move into a multimedia format. But then I get hung up on my perfectionism in cutting video to just the right frame, choosing the best or no transitions between shots and the number of retakes…