Non-Negotiables

It’s almost unfair, how the vast net of technology has dumbed us down so that we must be smacked in the head with the proverbial frying pan or repeatedly exposed to neon billboards to take notice.  I think I would have liked the days when we just mused, “Huh, that’s weird, there sure are a lot of cardinals flying about lately.  I wonder if they make them in a different color?”