Univ. of Cape Town library burns -- and with it, much of South African history. (via Daily Mail) our avg. date for last freeze: april 15.
winter storm advisory tonight; freeze watch tomorrow — proving that in kansas, norms mean nothing: only records count. we’re the place, maybe, that won’t notice climate chaos b/c it’s normal! . . . unless, of course, it’s more chaotic c’mon, joe, why don’t you write about the flowers, for crissakes? it’s f*ing springtime! accentuate the positive, eliminate -- meaning, appreciate what’s left & hope the rich & powerful figure it out, in a way that helps everyone else, too . . . meaning, meanwhile, s. africa set april heat records last week, so this week, there’s wildfires — one of which burned up the univ. of cape town library, including its manuscript collection, w/a wealth of documents important to the nation’s history (which, as a docu-something my- self and a researcher, i find dis- stressing), even as locusts overrun communal farms in n. cape. meanwhile, hail in saudi arabia, and cyclone surigae becomes strongest ever recorded so early in the year in n. hemisphere (but doesn’t pack enough rain to help taiwan out of its drought) . . . or maybe the free market is our last hope — after all, in the u.s., we’ve less coal, more renewables; the corporations may take the lead (the politicians who work for them definitely aren’t). but no matter what happens, for the non-rich (in the words of a former u.s. president), “it’s gonna be wild!” for the really really poor, it already is.
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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. |