I don't know if it's cheating to use a poem - it *is* all one sentence - but here's my selection for this week:
"There are nights in the forest of words when I panic, every step into a thicker darkness, the only way out to write myself into a clearing, which is silence"
from 'What The Light Teaches Us', by Anne Michaels
Climate collapse round-up, w/e 14th June. This does not include floods in Kyiv, Murcia, western Russia and across Florida this week, or wildfires in Reno.
Mass evacuations ordered after severe flooding when the Pichilo river burst its banks in Arauco, Chile (Monday) Landslide in Dagestan following torrential rain (Monday) La Palma airport, Mallorca (Monday) Evacuations ordered following a massive wildfire in Vidauban, France (Monday)
Well, I'm going to take advantage of this brief period of relative calm in my notifications to wander off into the sunset. Dream well, fedinauts ๐ฅฐ ๐๏ธ Overall verdict on Thursday
Update: Things are going *off* in France. Unions and leftist groups across the Hexagon, in Corsica and in the Pays Basque are planning an ongoing national protest and coordinated labour strikes starting tomorrow.
Dangerous, historically illiterate pontificating given a sheen of respectability by appearing in the FT. To quote another irredeemable fuckwit: "Go away and shut up".
"For bats, of course, there is no such thing as a darkness too dark; they are conoisseurs. But there is grace, too, in the dark: Navajo folklore holds bats as the earliest of the world's creatures, created while the whole world was in blackness, flying in the company of twelve insects through the newborn unlit earth ... "
from 'The Golden Mole and Other Treasure', by Katherine Rundell
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asleep, and the same the next day, and the next. Each single seahorse contains enough wonder to knock the whole of humanity off its feet, if we would but pay attention."
from 'The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure', by Katherine Rundell
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