Summer Furey

The temps are increasing a little bit each day and by Friday, it'll be 80. I don't know much about spring fever but I live for summers. I don't know if it's because I grew up in a tropical climate or something more mysterious, deeper in me, that draws me to the warmth, even hot and humid heat. Of course, it's natural for human beings to want to be warm but most people who live in the northern climes appreciate, or tolerate, the cooler months. I hate them. I especially hate when the temps increase for a couple days or a warm week, then suddenly plunge back down as quickly as they rose. Although, it's probably our fault the weather is so off balance. Granted, there is a certain amount of fluctuation in weather patterns but it's supposed to have a pattern. It isn't supposed to be unpredictable. There's a reason meterologist can do their job to a reasonable extent. They read the fronts, the temps, the winds, the storms, and can reasonably forecast what's to come. But what happens when they are so totally off the mark? What happened when the weather does a complete about face from what all the signs seemed to say? Is it the gods of old saying, "We're still here and we still have power over your meager lives!" Or is it the earth crying out from the wounds inflicted upon her? Is global warming real? Does it matter that we (as a species) have systematically erradicated entire species of plants, animals, people, and eco systems?

An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary by Al Gore, looks at what we've done to affect climatic changes across the world. Both corporate interests and intentional ignorance (the worst injustice) have eaten away at the earth's resources in such a profound way that the earth is having difficulty keeping it all together. She's cracking up. I tend to believe that most coporate CEOs recognize this and know that their decisions will have long term effects on the environment but with the thought, "Not in my life time ..." Except, here we are and the CEOs are still here and the planet is under the weather, beseiged by its own defenses. If you can do nothing else, go see this film. Don't succumb to intentional ignorance. You can decide for yourself what you believe once you have all the facts. I'm not suggesting Gore's film will make or break the argument, but it will add more substance to the question. What have we done? And, if you believe the question, then you have to ask, what can we do?

Bad, bad blogger!

I was reading some current and old posts on my friend Charlotte's blog (I can't remember how to create a hyperlink, so if you're interested, there's a link to her site over there on the right. It's called deli-cut.) and she was bemoaning blogging and the internet in general, or, at least that is my recollection of what she had written. Anyway, I'm kind of in the same boat, or, if that wasn't what she was talking about, then I'm in my own boat and it's a boat of people who are growing weary of their blogs. Relatively, I'm a newbie to this. I only began this blog about 2-3 years ago. When I first started it, I vowed to update it at least once a week. Since that avid vow, my posts have dwindled, sometimes to just once a month. It's not that I don't have anything to say but that, maybe, I need a new way to say it. We're all so bombarded with so many kinds of media these days that often, lately, I find myself consciously using less media, or exposing myself to less, than I used to. In fact, and this is sad, I recently received a very nice iPod. I think it may be the one with video, but I haven't even opened the package. I already spend hours a day on a computer and the net as part of my job. Then there's TV and radio. Oh, I discovered that I can listen to the radio through my cell phone and I can take digital pictures with it too! Everywhere I look is technology and media. No wonder I crave peace, quiet, and the countryside. I think I'll go for a walk ... right now!