What if no one has their act together?

What if the real truth is that no one really has their act together? I mean you, me, neighbors, all the way up to elected phony politicians, their advisors, generals and even the president of the United States?

Imagine the leaders of the countries all around the world are, in reality, just like yourselves: questioning … insecure … just pretending to know what is going on, but as insecure and doubting even their own perception of reality, and hoping that everyone else will "buy their act."

Isn't that really what all of us do when we get up and leave our houses: hoping that everyone we meet with will "buy our acts," not admitting or showing that none of know what it all really means and how many days we have left, and presenting ourselves to others as though we have it all figured all out.

"I'll buy your act. You buy mine?" Then we all live together harmoniously, break no laws and never show our doubts about the meaning of it all.

I don't know any sane person who wants to miss sunrises and sunsets while smelling the flowers and trees and Nature. We all want to look up at the sun directly and yell "I am free! And, I am alive!"

And, I will never do anything to harm another living being that will put me in jail. I look forward to Earth Day.

JAMES RICHARD JOHNSON

Clark Fork