when i was young in southern indiana

more political musings... i remember in southern indiana in the late 60s... waking in the morning to brown snow... and being appalled and even fearful... i know that many women in the community of hanover college on a bluff above the ohio river... down from cinci, ohio... down from cliffy falls power plant with its tall smoke stacks always pumping out black smoke, have died of various forms of cancer over the years that my family has called hanover home... i know that i am glad that i have moved away... not that pollution does not follow us all everywhere... still, it does seem that the ohio valley is still known as cancer alley... and this cancer, at least on the hanover college campus, seems to affect women more than men... how is this even possible? is it because these women are at home more, outside in gardens more... i have no idea...?

this musing goes back to the idea that somehow "W" the president is responsible for any bad that exists in america and perhaps in the entire world...

...all that i know is that pollution is less visible now than when i was a young person...

i know that lake erie is cleaner now than when my other/better half was a young person...

i know that the snow that will fall this winter in southern indiana will be white, not brown...