I have a lot of thoughts about the immune system and how it can make our lives so painful, trying so hard to protect us from dragons. Most of my theories probably wouldn't stand up to medical scrutiny, but again, who am I to say? But I think a lot of our pain is environmentally based. Our world is so toxic now. It will be years before they realize we've done it to ourselves, just like they're starting to own up to global warming. Last report I heard, it's much worse than they even imagined. By the end of the next century the temperature will have gone up more than in the previous I can't remember how many thousands of years. Maybe we can save some little corner of the earth. I laugh at all the houses built on our coastline and along the ridges of our crumbling mountain ranges, as if the dirt stays put forever, where we see it today. But part of me cries. It's hard to watch people make such big mistakes.