Brown Grass
Why does grass turn brown?
———- from Little Myron of Stanton, NE
Myron, I’m going to have to tell you something that is going to shock you. Every living thing, even the grass, is going to die. The grass, so lusciously green one day, is brown and dry the next. This is just one of those things Science calls a “fact.” It’s nobody’s fault. Science may one day make this fact obsolete, as it has many other facts in the past. Until it does, however, we’re all going to have to watch the grass turn brown. We’ll call the lines around our eyes laugh lines, then character lines, then wrinkles. The only way you can escape growing old is to die young. That is a predicament both scientists and bookies call a “no win situation.” Sorry, I had to be the one to break the news to you. But it’s good you asked now, when you’re young and the Internet isn’t controlled by a vast international conspiracy. The wounds will heal, with time.
Myron, I’m going to have to tell you something that is going to shock you. Every living thing, even the grass, is going to die. The grass, so lusciously green one day, is brown and dry the next. This is just one of those things Science calls a “fact.” It’s nobody’s fault. Science may one day make this fact obsolete, as it has many other facts in the past. Until it does, however, we’re all going to have to watch the grass turn brown. We’ll call the lines around our eyes laugh lines, then character lines, then wrinkles. The only way you can escape growing old is to die young. That is a predicament both scientists and bookies call a “no win situation.” Sorry, I had to be the one to break the news to you. But it’s good you asked now, when you’re young and the Internet isn’t controlled by a vast international conspiracy. The wounds will heal, with time. 