Discontent is an awful thing, and should be avoided whenever possible. It is not always easy to do so, sometimes we are so discontented that we inflict it upon our friends and neighbors. This is a bad thing, and something we must not tolerate in ourselves.

Fortunately, not everyone is so discontented, so we will prudently yeild the floor to their more constructive thoughts.. thoughts which vary and wander this week around and about many different subjects, and take our mind off of the autumn of our.. discontent.

Jo Campbell suprises us this week with a positive look at an element of our society which we tend to think of in more negative terms, the militant survivalists who seem (to us, anyway) to eagerly await the destruction of our society so they can smugly watch the rest of us perish while they eat canned ham and say "Told ya so !!", but, as is often the case, it's just not that simple. See Who Are Our Heroes, Anyway ?

We are fortunate to have an uplifting Spiritual Message from new contributor Rev. Van C. Heslop who rides in like the emotional calvary (the kind with horses, not crosses) and says "So... you think you got troubles, bubbles ?"

We proudly introduce to our readers another new contributor, Albert P. Cohen whose treatment of the need for decent, affordable housing, and how one shore community has made some important progress in this area, is as thorough a look as we have seen anywhere. If you care whether or not people freeze to death, you will want to read: New Hope In Snow Hill.

Jim and Kathleen Yungel and the erudite Stone Soup Internet Committee (Interstonnic) keep making progress, see what is up with the soup in: Stone Soup III - The Broth Thickens

ICNet member Billy Barton mailed us some weeks ago about a site he had found.. one which honors one of America's finest bluesmen and poets. We select a sample and point the way there in: Tom Waits For No Man.

The Rouses, Kelley and Rob, send along treats for our visual centers, our laugh centers, and our sneeze centers. We're very centered, as a result of this. Happily we present the second Cybertoon by Rob Rouse, while Kelley brings us a large and beautiful bouquet of Wildflowers and reminds us that beauty, even if it makes us sneeze, is still beautiful.

Those of us who attempt to write ought to be mindful that we should be Talking About The Right Things, when we interview. Jo Campbell shares an important experience from the early days of her long career when she interviewed a legend of folk music, Burl Ives.

Finally, we wonder if the world has lost its mind as we say So Long, Robert E. Lee.