the walnut valley music festival
happens in winfield, kansas, the 3rd weekend in sept. always it rains on the campers there; it always rains up here, too, but not this year: sunny weather & no campers in winfield in this plaugey year. And no rain in september or august . . . & tomorrow, predicted hi 90 f / norm 76 but hey, no rain in las vegas since april . . . & france had its driest summer ever the opposite problem for tx. coast: massive flooding from beta; so, beware of fire-ant piles floating in floodwater: another reason not to wade therein (the stuff you just don’t think of until it bites you in the but so much for 1st world problems -- mumbai has water in the street butt-high & rising; mudslides in india and nepal; dozens of humans dead from too much water moving through c. nigeria, 100s of households displaced; & stinking stagnant water thigh-high in streets of dakar but climate migration isn’t just for the global south: in the u.s., 1.2 m humans / yr driven from home by weather disasters since 2016 (some multiple times), as if there were any place to go to be safe: if it's not the piles of rubble it's the piles of ants . . . & 2x the avg # of atlantic storms; 3 in 1 day (1st time ever); & in pacific, la niña, meaning we’re heading into drought just as wheat planting begins here in ks., which would explain the parching crust of dirt under our feet, the sword over our heads
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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. |