Brown Grass
Why does grass turn brown?
———- from Little Myron Hanson of Stanton, Nebraska
Myron, I’m going to tell you something that’s going to shock you. Every living thing, even the grass, is going to die. The grass that’s so lusciously green one day may be brown and dry the next. This is just one of those things Science calls a “fact.” It’s nobody’s fault. Now science may one day make this fact obsolete, as it has many other facts in the past, but until it does, well, we’re all going to watch 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’s a predicament both Scientists and bookies, their good friends and advisors, 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 relatively young. The wounds will heal, with time. Just bet on it. Or ask my bookie.
Myron, I’m going to tell you something that’s going to shock you. Every living thing, even the grass, is going to die. The grass that’s so lusciously green one day may be brown and dry the next. This is just one of those things Science calls a “fact.” It’s nobody’s fault. Now science may one day make this fact obsolete, as it has many other facts in the past, but until it does, well, we’re all going to watch 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’s a predicament both Scientists and bookies, their good friends and advisors, 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 relatively young. The wounds will heal, with time. Just bet on it. Or ask my bookie. 