Onward and upward I heard

I had the day off today. All the usual 5 weeds that had popped up in the garden since my last weeding had to be plucked, the greenhouse needed its daily watering(it's about 80 degrees in the today), and my 'dockrillia bowmanii' has 2 flowers, unexpectedly. It is a small plant so to have any flowers at all is nice!!!
'Masdevallia macrura' has 2 flowers coming on it and my 'gramatophyllum multiflorum citinum' (2 plants) have a combination of 6 spikes between them and it should be blooming in August or September. I got a reed-stemmed 'epidendrum' hybrid from my friend Marc Cohen(aboutorchids.com) that he grows outside in SF all year and it is nearly always in flower. I also got from him a very large chunk(Thanks, Marc!!) of 'bulbophyllum biflorum', some 'Cassia" seeds(A Brazilian, tree I think), a handful of cuttings from a soft spiny epiphytic cactus(jungle cactus) that he also grows outside all year. Very cerise flowers!!! I also received a small 'stanhopea nigripes', 'porroglossum muscosum' and a few odd cuttings of this-n-that. All very nice and his generosity is legendary!!!
There is a cool breeze blowing, stirring up dust and sending in the clouds(not clowns, Barbra, clouds!!) from the west. As I was riding home from SF today, I looked around me at all the variety of persons present on the train with me. Funny hats, electronic devices in hands and ears, backpacks so heavy with book, and I wondered how these folks and I would fair together in the event that the BART train encountered the "unimaginable" in the event of a break in the tube and water gushing in to meet us. Would we all struggle together to help each other out? How many of us might perish in such an event. I am not a pessimist so much as a mildly analytical realist who sees the world from the position of "what if" and how would it look and what would we do? I'd have to say that Hollywood's constant draw to "emergency" or "tragedy" stories makes me wonder about these things. I also realized that I was not scared and actually comfortable with the idea that I might not survive such an event. Curious......