It's a long road

If rising gas prices, declining supply of clean drinking water, global warming and terrestrial temper-tantrums cause you to wonder if the apocalypse is near, Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" will convince you that it is.

A boy and his father wander through the wastelands of the American West, searching for canned food and water, hiding from an unnamed human enemy who feasts on human flesh. Wheels are rolled and carts are pushed- the future has become a hopeless version of a darker past.

This is a poem, a catastrophic treatise whose message is such a bleak one, it becomes difficult to remember that a single person can change: change himself, change herself, change something extraneous, but hope and imagination march hand in hand. Look forward. Look forward to change.