This will be the last entry to POOC & WOOT for 2020. Join us again on Jan. 4, 2021, when everything will be better. record hi for seattle’s winter solstice
(59 f); a few hours later, ½” snow . . . ho ho here, 48 hrs of constant wind: (25 mph, gusts 35); the gulf has hurricanes, bangladesh has floods, semiarid regions have drought; maybe windstorms are to be our x-treme weather signature. sure seems like more of it than when i first got here, way back then, way back down on the curve the good news is there’s not as much bad news today — at least, not weather-wise but climate is another story, as brain-eating amoeba move farther north w/warmer water temps; & intervals between trees’ flowering & leafing grow, making them grow less; & tropical trees’ already-short lives are shortening, w/hotter temps; & the freshwater dumped by stronger storms into the seas is giving dolphins ulcerative dermatitis; & the last drought in e. australia shriveled the rivers so bad they’ll likely be a trickle of their former selves -- still, it’s the holidays, season of joy, love, peace, giving, compassion and sucrose. why pine & grieve? or grieve for the pines? let us raise a warm goblet of what- ever, to toast our warming globe, appreciate our loved ones over zoom, and savor the present -- the future is & always was entirely hypothetical
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Kristin Prevallet Author/Editor
I'm a writer & teacher in Lawrence, Kansas who actually believes the scientists. I wrote a book of poems called Of Some Sky that seems to have something to do with all this. |