End Of August - which August - this last August!

Wow! - time flies. Our lives are so busy! Some hundreds of years ago someone wrote the following lines "The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon" - that person was the British poet William Wordsworth and I guess things must have changed muchly!! It is this "getting and spending" - clearly not a new concept; that strikes a chord with me. We're buying, selling, moving homes, drawing down loans, paying off debt. Acquiring new assets, changing cars, clothes, opinions. Significant maybe, that he says later in the same sonnet "For this, for everything, we are out of tune". Don't quite know what prompted this outburst - maybe I'd just be happy if there were 14% less cars on the road each time I try to cross over the bridge into Vancouver. There, a Realtor's musings! Alan.