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the crow on the ice floe : behind the branches
so far this month everything is about winter and snow. now it melts and it is ugly. i want more white to come and purify it all. i don’t care about the inconvenience. really. i can’t believe this county requested disaster assistance for 8 inches of snow at Christmas time. and i think they got it. that is so ridiculous. shameful. i’ll bet anyone in Haiti would like to trade places with anyone in our county and their minor inconveniences due to a bit of snow. hmm? i haven’t lamented and posted links for Haiti assistance and i apologize if that is unkind and thoughtless. i have looked at the images though and it is very saddening. mother nature can be so cruel. but i can’t find a sense of outrage or injustice within me (except for the entities that use disaster for money-making, power-making and religious justice). natural disasters will just happen and cannot really be controlled. even by manMade things like shittily-built levees. the disasters that appall me are the human ones. the manMade disasters. especially the ones that bring about the ruin of the natural world and its inhabitants. and that is as political as i will get.
i have (finally) been reading Oryx And Crake this week (in preparation for Atwood’s latest novel, a continuation of sorts, which my poet has just read and recommends highly). it doesn’t even seem like “science fiction” to me. just a probable vision of the future. we are all so foolish.
today my poet will come back to visit for the weekend. it will probably be too mushy for hiking, but maybe we will anyway. it is warmish. i have sat in my flannel covers with the fairy lights around me for too long, writing and reading, and will not have time to go do laundry now. clean sheets for him? or clean hair and a hot lunch for him? hmm. lucky me to have such simple choices to make. such possibilities. such a … paradise.
20100116 2:53 pm
bobbi, i haven’t been here in a while, and oh how refreshing it is. (to be here that is) love these snow pics - A LOT. when i look at these last posts i think/feel “oh yeah, that’s right.”
i couldn’t agree more with what you wrote about the disaster thing. it’s the man made ones that get me… and i was saying to dh this morning - how can all of these millions/billions being sent to haiti not be enough? how much does all of this ‘relief’ cost, for heaven’s sake?
anyway… peace to you…
xo lynne
20100116 4:45 pm
I love this “Crow” image. So shadowy and full of surprise…
20100118 9:55 am
thank you, lynne and sondra, so much!
lynne, i agree, about the money. it seems so much, but i can’t help but wonder what effect it will really have. in the long run. and what will that country have to “pay” for taking it? it is all so large and unhappy. i have a hard time contemplating.
20100125 9:47 am
this is such a gorgeous pic. my river doesn’t look like this! you r lucky!