Valley of the angels
Today I am a Los Angeleno. Hell, today we are all Los Angelenos. Except American Republicans of course.
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bushfire
I Don\’t Want To Set The World On Fire
To say that Australian plants are adapted to fire (and flood, and storm, and landslide) is like saying that grass is adapted to lawnmowers. Saturday, 7 December 2019 at 8:28 pm – view South from my window, horrific smoke from major bushfires in the mountains of southern NSW.
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Seasons
Plumes of smoke on a cold Winter’s day bring thoughts of warmth and community and human busyness and achievement. Plumes of smoke on a hot Summer’s day bring thoughts of destruction and terror and loss and anger and failure.
Value of nothing
Politicians and journalists always demand to know, and then reject, the cost of measures to conserve the environment. But neither ever ask the cost of war.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends, with the bang of a million trees exploding, with the whimper of a thousand koalas dying, and unbreathable smoke, and blowing dust, and drying earth, and drying rivers, and a howling wind, and a bloody Sun, and a feeling of utter helplessness.
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An app by any other name
I have an “Anxiety App” that generates anxiety. It’s also called “Fires near me”
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Eyes wide closed
Having an online map of bushfires in this state, constantly updated, is good because it keeps you informed about what is burning. It is bad because it keeps you informed about what is burning.
The drumbeat of hooves
Every morning I awake wondering if this is the day a million red horses of the apocalypse will come galloping over the western hills.
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