It has been difficult trying to find something to write about for the farm blog the past several weeks simply because every topic I come up with seems to require a great deal of effort. Don't get me wrong. I do not mind expending effort to accomplish something that may have some value. The problem has been that so many of the topics that I've been coming up with are difficult to handle and are, quite frankly, depressing. Depressing because they are topics that show me how unworthy we all are to expect anything more than what is left of the hand we were dealt now that we (humanity in general) have squandered so much of it. Even more difficult is the fact that I wonder if what I write here will make any difference anywhere at all.