Entry #2,541

[greygirlbeast]

Supposedly, today will be a little cooler than yesterday. Here in Providence, the temperature reached about 87F. That was Outside. Inside the House, the temperature reached 86F and stayed there for several hours after sunset.

Yesterday, I wrote 1,459 words on "Tidal Forces." I wrote one of the few intentionally frightening scenes I've ever written

Comments

[whiskeychick]

I've been in mourning for more than a week. It took me a while to realize where the foundation of the emotion was coming from. Like you, I can't face the sea -- and I love to go by it nearly daily (I do a lunchtime walk by the Puget Sound a few times a week). I go back to what my dear friend told me -- the whole think globally, act locally. I continue to do my part here. I can't plug the hole. I've screamed at my leaders for years. They don't listen. All I can do is try to live the best I can.
But, I believe I'll be in mourning for a long time to come.

[bbluemarble]

The thing that pisses me off the most are the people that don't seem to understand the seriousness of the situation. Because when the end comes it won't be in a Hollywood-style explosion of hellfire and death, it will be in an insidious toxin that corrupts everything it touches. It will be slow and it will be subtle and no one will know what it is as it's happening but many years later when they look back, they will say "Yes, then. That's when it began."

Do anything you can think of that will help in any way you see fit. Worship your goddess. Cover yourself in tattoos dedicated to her.

Yes indeed

[spank_an_elf]

Tonight while watching a report on the Gulf I started crying and when I looked at my partner, she was in the same dismal condition. And to think there's agents of evil out there beginning to side with BP. Using the political situation to their financial advantage even when they are supposedly serving the public. I say stuff them in the well. Their gigantic greed might clog the flow.

We try for energy efficiency. We own one creaky air conditioner for an ancient 11 room house and only use it to keep the bunnies safe in the living room when the heat soars. They can't take off their fur. But yes, we need to drive. We communicate through computers. It sucks. We care but like you said we're part of the problem. Hey, fuck, at least we're not contributing to over population.

What about the people in China and Brazil dying in floods? Maybe it's time for the planet to kick us off. I wouldn't blame her.

Sorry for the rant.

[sovay]

I think it has a sort of Theodore Sturgeon meets Shirley Jackson feel, but I might be mistaken.

I hope you're not.

To stop having babies. But that's not going to happen, not ever by choice- because we are greedy and lazy, selfish and ignorant -until the compounded actions of humanity and limitations of the biosphere force it to happen.

Oh, but it's our God-given right. There is no such thing as a God-given limitation, unless it is on the rights of others.

And, for me, it all comes down to sea turtles being burned alive.

Yes.

[papersteven]

>There is no such thing as a God-given limitation, unless it is on the rights of others.

Well said.

Environ-mental

[moto_chagatai]

I don't let the actions of others decide the actions I personally make to help the Earth. I saved a fledgling sparrow yesterday, is that act lessened by the fact that I also drove to work? The sparrow I think, would see the trade-off as O.K. We (individuals) can only do what we can do. My wife and have no children and no intention of, we recycle, we limit out driving and look for fuel effeciency. We do all we can and wait for others to do all they can..or die off, whichever comes first.