This time last week I was in Lincoln NE removing plants from their wrong locations (my professor friend cautioned I shouldn't call it weeding). Had I stayed on, I'd be in line this morning to hear T. Boone Pickens explain his plan at a town hall meeting at the Lancaster Events Center at 10:30.

You've no doubt seen Mr. Pickens' tv ads promoting a national shift to wind power and natural gas. I'm trying to look at it as rationally as I can with all the information i can find.

Right now, I'm a walking dichotomy. At night one side of my brain reads Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods" (for the third time) his witty tale of living in nature while hiking the Appalachian Trail. While I try to stifle belly laughs into chuckles, the mattress still convulses and it wakes up my husband. Through Bryson's tale, we learn the origins of how the AT, this trove of national treasure, originated and was set aside.

By day, the other side of my head is conjuring the wind tunnel corridor through the American Heartland. The two concepts, preserved nature versus energy independence and technology advancement, are wrestling. Many land owners are at odds with how the serenity of the Heartland and their lives will be destroyed. I'm sensitive to that.

Here's the URL to T. Boone Pickens website.

www.push.pickensplan.com

I invite you to join me in a forum to discuss the pros and cons and how we can make this work.

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