i just bought this, shit!

i tuned into WBEZ online this morning (because the NPR in Baltimore isn't my favorite) and heard an interview with this author on Worldview.

The Green Boat : Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture by Mary Pipher

SYNOPSIS
Pipher is back with another groundbreaking examination of everyday life, this time exploring how to conquer the fears about major environmental issues and transform them into a positive force in for life

*****

"Mary Pipher takes on our planet's greatest problems with the skills of a truly gifted therapist. She knows why we avoid and deny the truth and she knows how we can heal ourselves and our communities even as we try to heal the earth. This book is a deep and true gift."—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth

In Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher offered a paradigm-shattering look at the lives of adolescent women. Now Pipher is back with another ground-breaking examination of everyday life, this time exploring how to conquer our fears about the major environmental issues that confound us and transform them into a positive force in our lives.

Pipher emphasizes the importance of taking small, positive steps to preserve what’s important, drawing from her own experiences as part of a group fighting energy company TransCanada’s installation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline across the Midwest, which will sit atop the Ogallala Aquifer, the source of 40% of the United States’ fresh water. The challenges she confronts reveal surprising answers to the critical questions we face: How do we mobilize ourselves and our communities to work together to solve global problems? How do we stay happy amid very difficult situations? And what is the true meaning of hope?

in a poem, yesterday

cats + nuclear fission =

to touch
            sun warmed brick

Sheppard's Hook

LAKE TROUT

SEA
SALT GRINDER

UNDER
   DA
  SEA

*****

there was something extra pretty about yesterday. it felt like i was living inside a poem

can death metal aesthetics transcend it's angst?

 by this google search it doesn't look good, but i think i might try

Terrence Hannum, Thaddeus Kellstadt, and Jason Lahr (probably among many others) have done it....

sometimes i transcribe packaging material

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maglite tests

We hardly see light and dark anymore
Return to Sender
Anymore
[flashlight and aluminum]

:(

image from Toothpaste for Dinner

The reality of climate change is threatening all of us. It’s cute, perhaps, to claim planets will do better with more CO₂ in the air, or that frigid countries farther north will be warmer. But that’s a crock. The reality is that weather patterns will change. We’ll get more floods in some areas, more droughts in others, more powerful storms, more forest fires (at a time when the U. S. Forest Service is out of money), and worse.

I look out my window, and to my west the Rocky Mountains are bare; the amount of snow and ice I can see at their peaks is very small—just like it was last year, and the year before. But usually, even in the height of summer, the tops of those mountains are dazzlingly white with snow. Colorado supplies water to many other states in the U.S., and this decade-long drought is starting to have real impact on other regions. It’s likely to get worse, not better.

Am I being alarmist? I don’t think so; I’m being realistic, in the true sense of the word. The problem is, the reality is alarming.
-by Phil Plait for Bad Astronomy, full post here.

"A Reading"

A Reading, in process (drying) in my backyard and photographed with my phone. aluminum roof paint on rocks. 2013