Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does not work for something new which does? ~ Alcoholics Anonymous: the “Big Book” (Kindle Locations 800-801)

We sat in the hospital room
hearing a doctor recently back from Harvard
tell the latest news — for the elderly
blood pressure at an erstwhile normal rate
may be too low, causing falling, that the new right
is 150. We visited, talking of coffee —
good for you, bad for you, good for you —
then there’s the theory of global warming…
or is it cooling…just climate change?
And the cause? We live in a time when news
repeats the old, thousands of years old,
and happens again but different, day after day.
But our age, just like some eighty years ago
is characterized by ease in discarding,
in readiness to accept…
But truth is truth, right is right,
and while all thing change there are principles
that remain the same
forever.