Children of the Apocalypse
Jan. 8th, 2020 12:31 pmMy daughter's favorite neighbor is a retired woman who left for 2 months of cruise around Austraila in November. The craftster diaspora site on discord has a "today I hate" topic in which one of our aussie crafters has been talking about temperatures and the horrifying state of her air conditioner. I tried to explain a bit of this to my child, and she decided she wants it to flood here so she can go to school in a boat.
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siderea Conditions in Canberra, and then in general what it's like to be Australian on the internet at present. (and I strongly recommend clicking through the last one, despite facebook, to read the second half of the essay.)
Despite the cultural hype, I don't think I've ever seen a white Christmas. (Most of them I've spent in noVa or MD, aside from a couple in west Texas as a kid.) The Christmas I was in 5th grade it was warm and foggy out, so temperate that we wore light jackets to go for a walk after dinner, which was so weird I remember it 30 years later. Now, 50 miles north, I walk my kid to and from school, and it is not weird to have about a week per month of light jacket weather, at least in the afternoons. Meanwhile, my northern friends can expect periodic run-ins with the wandering polar vortex. We have wandered out of the "new normal" into "there is no normal."But let's just start another war over oil politics, that'll help.
When I went back to check on last year's birthday post, I rediscovered my plan to do tarot-style "do something" cards: here's one. I have upped my contribution to the Alongside Wild Foundation, who funds small but useful conservation & habitat projects around the world, and is just beginning to get into land acquisition. So, that's a useful thing that can be done, in as little as $1/month amounts.
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siderea Conditions in Canberra, and then in general what it's like to be Australian on the internet at present. (and I strongly recommend clicking through the last one, despite facebook, to read the second half of the essay.)Despite the cultural hype, I don't think I've ever seen a white Christmas. (Most of them I've spent in noVa or MD, aside from a couple in west Texas as a kid.) The Christmas I was in 5th grade it was warm and foggy out, so temperate that we wore light jackets to go for a walk after dinner, which was so weird I remember it 30 years later. Now, 50 miles north, I walk my kid to and from school, and it is not weird to have about a week per month of light jacket weather, at least in the afternoons. Meanwhile, my northern friends can expect periodic run-ins with the wandering polar vortex. We have wandered out of the "new normal" into "there is no normal."
When I went back to check on last year's birthday post, I rediscovered my plan to do tarot-style "do something" cards: here's one. I have upped my contribution to the Alongside Wild Foundation, who funds small but useful conservation & habitat projects around the world, and is just beginning to get into land acquisition. So, that's a useful thing that can be done, in as little as $1/month amounts.