Monday April 14^th

Current Mood: Chilly

Listening to: “Jingle Bells”-Robert Goulet version

Higher Ground

It’s snowing right now. SNOW. The kids were in shorts just a few days ago!! After almost a week of nice weather, nice enough to trick all the early blooming things into appearing and kick in everyone’s springtime allergies, we then get oceans of rain, and now this. The schizophrenic weather that is becoming the standard here in Evansville just seems to keep getting weirder. Between this and the circadian clock-defying time changes we endure, I am surprised we aren’t seeing clusters of serious weirdness in both human and animal behavior. Either it is sweeps week in some kind of Truman Show production so the powers that be have cranked the weather machine up to 11, or it’s time to take a step back and admit that we have gone past the point of no return with Global Warming. We have annoyed the planet; bitten hard enough that the Earth is in the process of trying to scratch us off. Please, still go ahead and try to live greener and maybe we can prevent the next crisis. But for now get ready to ride this one out. I don’t think the consequences will come so fast and furious that we can’t adapt; but it will change the way we live. Everyone might just have to wear zip-off pants and sleeves from now on. And if you live in an area that keeps flooding, well, take the hint. But, for the record, I predict there will be no global application of advantage, humankind will endure (however gracelessly), we will just be dealing with some unpleasant flea powder for awhile. A-choo! 

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