The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
It is not all bad this getting old ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.