Disco is My Cosmos

In a recent blog post, I made an analogy about having to chip away at a wall in order to cross it. But today I wondered, what if I have absolutely no tools or time to chip away at this wall?  What if I am up against it and it's so close I can smell it.  I can hear it.  I am completely terrified of what's inside this wall.  It seems so thick! Impenetrable. How on earth can I get past this wall?  Science tells me it is made of atoms and so am I, and if I try to move through it, I am going to meet its atoms and, if I run at it from a distance, I'm bound to hit it at such an intensity that I'll seriously injure myself. So I can't just run and crash into the wall.  That's out. As taken from the other post, this wall is infinitely wide and very tall. It's also very smooth - no way to climb. I'm at standstill.  I take a moment and cry my heart out. When I regain my composure, something has changed. That wall is no longer what it was. I gently ...

The county that I live in has been growing rapidly over the last, well, two decades really.  It's now a county with one of the highest concentrations of people.  The road system was never designed for such growth. Consequently, construction has been a fact of life for many years.  As I commute quite regularly throughout the county, I come across construction in all sorts of forms. One of the biggest projects right now is US 19.  Once a three lane highway, it is becoming an interstate with ramps and overpasses.  As it changes, the businesses that once "littered" the side of the highway have become extinct, due to the inaccessibility.  Where the construction is finished lays a wasteland of buildings that used to thrive. In the areas where there is ongoing construction, it is quite a mess.  Mounds of dirt, armies of trucks and bulldozers; barricades galore. Driving around this construction is frustrating and sometimes scary.  Yesterday, I noticed...