Global warming = local cooling?
Hi everyone^^ I was able to post again much sooner than I thought I would, a nice surprise for me. Tomorrow afternoon I leave for a business trip to Ottawa...it'll be 'run home from school and hop in a cab to the airport'XD My coworker wants to get my drunk (he does that with all of the women in the office when they go on business trips with him...it's not a threatening thing, just some weird personality quirk where he likes to drink people under the table^^;) and I'm trying to mentally prepare myself to resistXD
As for the title of today's post, Winnipeg has been experiencing the worst spring/summer I can ever remember:S It's a full 10 degrees below normal, we still have frost warnings on a weekly basis, and the wind and rain is not much help. According to some nutty woman at work (who has compiled a book about how the province is doomed, based on 80 years of weather recordsO_o) it's going to keep getting worse and worse, and eventually the growing season will be short we won't even be able to grow crops:O Now, she did predict this summer's weather last fall, so she's not completely off her rocker, but seriously? This is nuts. Apparently we will be one the places that actually gets colder due to global warming, and it becomes hard to ignore when this kind of weather continues. It makes me start thinking about what I can do to stop this crazy cycle we're in...
And conveniently, I decided to translate Green. Yes, not very helpful. I will try harder;)
A simple-sounding song, but a nice message in the lyrics...:3
いつからだろう 僕の目には
あの匂いが何故か聴こえずに
いつからだろう 子供たちに
残せるものを数えてばかり
雲一つもないあの空が
見詰め語りかけてくるように
足首を撫でてるこの海が
見上げて問いつめてくるように
そんなつもりなんてなかったのに
汚し 傷つけていたのはそう
もし僕の少しで止まるのなら
このほんの少しで変わるなら
あるはずなのに いつも
あるはずだったの いくつも
きっとまだ いまならまだ
未来は樹に実るかな
なら僕たちにはいま何が
出来るのか考え眠れずに
失うことがただ怖いだけ
あの毎日が残す爪痕
コンクリートに耐えて咲く命
抱きしめ暖めて優しさを
もし僕の少しで止まるのなら
このほんの少しで変わるなら
あるはずなのに いつも
あるはずだったの いくつも
きっとまだ いまならまだ
未来は樹に実るかな Oh・・・
あの頃に見た あの頃の景色
あの日と今日は現在 ah
手と手を取って 誰かがではなく
明日のために
あるはずなのに いつも
あるはずだったの いくつも
きっとまだ いまならまだ
未来は樹に実るかな
未来が樹に実るまで
*******************************************
itsukara darou boku no me ni wa
ano nioi ga nazeka kikoezu ni
itsukara darou kodomotachi ni
nokoseru mono kazoete bakari
kumo hitotsu nai ano sora ga
mitsume katarikaketekuru you ni
ashikubi wo nadeteru kono umi ga
miagete tooitsumetekuru you ni
sonna tsumori nante nakatta na no ni
yogoshi, kizutsuketeita no wa sou
moshi boku no sukoshi de tomaru no nara
kono hon no sukoshi de kawaru no nara
nara bokutachi ni wa ima nani ga
dekiru no ka kangae, nemurezu ni
ushinau koto ga tada kowai dake
ano mainichi ga nokosu tsumeato
konkuriito ni taete saku inochi
dakishime atatamete yasashisa wo
moshi boku no sukoshi de tomaru no nara
kono hon no sukoshi de kawaru no nara
aru hazu na no ni, itsumo
aru hazu datta no, ikutsumo
kitto mada, ima nara mada
mirai wa ki ni minoru ka na oh
ano koro ni mita, ano koro no keshiki
ano hi to kyou wa ima ah
te to te wo totte, dareka ga de wa naku
asu no tame ni
aru hazu na no ni, itsumo
aru hazu datta no, ikutsumo
kitto mada, ima nara mada
mirai wa ki ni minoru ka na
mirai wa ki ni minoru made
*******************************************
since when have I been, for some reason,
unable to hear that scent in my eyes,
since when have we been just counting
the things we can leave for our children
it's as if that cloudless sky is staring at me,
as if it would talk to me
it's as if this ocean caressing my ankles
is looking up at me questioningly
though it was never our intent to do it,
it's a fact that we dirtied and injured it
if my little bit can stop it,
if my tiny little bit can change it...
then think sleeplessly, about what we
can do right now
the scars left by that everyday where we are
just scared of losing something
an embracing, warming gentleness
for the life blooming in resistance of the concrete
if my little bit can stop it,
if my tiny little bit can change it...
it should be there, always
they should have been there, so many of them
surely still, even now still
maybe the future will bloom on the trees, oh
what we saw at that time, the landscape of that time
that day and today are now, ah
put our hands together, not leaving it to someone else
for the sake of tomorrow
it should be there, always
they should have been there, so many of them
surely still, even now still
maybe the future will bloom on the trees
until the future blooms on the trees
I especially like Aiba's part, it's very visually inspiring. A good reminder we all need to do our part, this isn't one person's fight anymore...
Well, I better go do my homework and pack^^ I hope you all are having better weather than I, and some free time to enjoy it too=) Take care~
あたしの力で何かが変わるなら、その力を使うべきですね。。。
As for the title of today's post, Winnipeg has been experiencing the worst spring/summer I can ever remember:S It's a full 10 degrees below normal, we still have frost warnings on a weekly basis, and the wind and rain is not much help. According to some nutty woman at work (who has compiled a book about how the province is doomed, based on 80 years of weather recordsO_o) it's going to keep getting worse and worse, and eventually the growing season will be short we won't even be able to grow crops:O Now, she did predict this summer's weather last fall, so she's not completely off her rocker, but seriously? This is nuts. Apparently we will be one the places that actually gets colder due to global warming, and it becomes hard to ignore when this kind of weather continues. It makes me start thinking about what I can do to stop this crazy cycle we're in...
And conveniently, I decided to translate Green. Yes, not very helpful. I will try harder;)
A simple-sounding song, but a nice message in the lyrics...:3
いつからだろう 僕の目には
あの匂いが何故か聴こえずに
いつからだろう 子供たちに
残せるものを数えてばかり
雲一つもないあの空が
見詰め語りかけてくるように
足首を撫でてるこの海が
見上げて問いつめてくるように
そんなつもりなんてなかったのに
汚し 傷つけていたのはそう
もし僕の少しで止まるのなら
このほんの少しで変わるなら
あるはずなのに いつも
あるはずだったの いくつも
きっとまだ いまならまだ
未来は樹に実るかな
なら僕たちにはいま何が
出来るのか考え眠れずに
失うことがただ怖いだけ
あの毎日が残す爪痕
コンクリートに耐えて咲く命
抱きしめ暖めて優しさを
もし僕の少しで止まるのなら
このほんの少しで変わるなら
あるはずなのに いつも
あるはずだったの いくつも
きっとまだ いまならまだ
未来は樹に実るかな Oh・・・
あの頃に見た あの頃の景色
あの日と今日は現在 ah
手と手を取って 誰かがではなく
明日のために
あるはずなのに いつも
あるはずだったの いくつも
きっとまだ いまならまだ
未来は樹に実るかな
未来が樹に実るまで
*******************************************
itsukara darou boku no me ni wa
ano nioi ga nazeka kikoezu ni
itsukara darou kodomotachi ni
nokoseru mono kazoete bakari
kumo hitotsu nai ano sora ga
mitsume katarikaketekuru you ni
ashikubi wo nadeteru kono umi ga
miagete tooitsumetekuru you ni
sonna tsumori nante nakatta na no ni
yogoshi, kizutsuketeita no wa sou
moshi boku no sukoshi de tomaru no nara
kono hon no sukoshi de kawaru no nara
nara bokutachi ni wa ima nani ga
dekiru no ka kangae, nemurezu ni
ushinau koto ga tada kowai dake
ano mainichi ga nokosu tsumeato
konkuriito ni taete saku inochi
dakishime atatamete yasashisa wo
moshi boku no sukoshi de tomaru no nara
kono hon no sukoshi de kawaru no nara
aru hazu na no ni, itsumo
aru hazu datta no, ikutsumo
kitto mada, ima nara mada
mirai wa ki ni minoru ka na oh
ano koro ni mita, ano koro no keshiki
ano hi to kyou wa ima ah
te to te wo totte, dareka ga de wa naku
asu no tame ni
aru hazu na no ni, itsumo
aru hazu datta no, ikutsumo
kitto mada, ima nara mada
mirai wa ki ni minoru ka na
mirai wa ki ni minoru made
*******************************************
since when have I been, for some reason,
unable to hear that scent in my eyes,
since when have we been just counting
the things we can leave for our children
it's as if that cloudless sky is staring at me,
as if it would talk to me
it's as if this ocean caressing my ankles
is looking up at me questioningly
though it was never our intent to do it,
it's a fact that we dirtied and injured it
if my little bit can stop it,
if my tiny little bit can change it...
then think sleeplessly, about what we
can do right now
the scars left by that everyday where we are
just scared of losing something
an embracing, warming gentleness
for the life blooming in resistance of the concrete
if my little bit can stop it,
if my tiny little bit can change it...
it should be there, always
they should have been there, so many of them
surely still, even now still
maybe the future will bloom on the trees, oh
what we saw at that time, the landscape of that time
that day and today are now, ah
put our hands together, not leaving it to someone else
for the sake of tomorrow
it should be there, always
they should have been there, so many of them
surely still, even now still
maybe the future will bloom on the trees
until the future blooms on the trees
I especially like Aiba's part, it's very visually inspiring. A good reminder we all need to do our part, this isn't one person's fight anymore...
Well, I better go do my homework and pack^^ I hope you all are having better weather than I, and some free time to enjoy it too=) Take care~
あたしの力で何かが変わるなら、その力を使うべきですね。。。