by Patrick Rhone, Master Generalist
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren is the best take on climate change I’ve yet read. Straight forward, down to earth, fact driven, empathetic, approachable, practical, and cautiously hopeful. The author states things plainly; where we are now, how we got here, and simply emphasizes the urgent need for something to be done about it.
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<Beatrix, age 12, picks up Brutus, our Pomeranian dog, and places him on top of the garbage can>
“You’re on top of the world Brutus!”
“Get it? Because the world’s so darn polluted.”
(Reminder: She can run for President in only 23 years)
“Our healing is not in the storm or in the whirlwind, it is not in monarchies, or aristocracies, or democracies, but will be revealed by the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart, prompting us to a wider and wiser humanity.”
—James Russell Lowell (1884)
My first pumpkin spice latte of the season is always the free one I get on my birthday. It’s become a tradition.
Expect lots of updates to my home restoration microblog, Whoa to Wow, in the coming weeks as work begins in earnest again on the Hague House project. Today, we’re draining the radiator system; temporarily removing two from the kitchen.
Maybe we should just exhume this guy. I’ve got the t-shirt ready and waiting…
We had to say a lot of goodbyes to good friends this weekend. But, one, in particular, cuts deep in so many ways. Not sure I’ve really faced it yet.
The case for rereading — A Working Library
Reading isn’t an escape —it’s a reckoning.
Observation: A fall weekend where your clothes don’t end up smelling like campfire smoke seem less successful than a fall weekend where they do.
From the smell of my clothes, this was a successful fall weekend.
