September 2020 Blog
Egads! Oh, my goodness! What a year this has been, and it isn’t over yet.
Sakes Alive: A Haiku
Amazing – how long
You can hold your breath waiting
For that other shoe.
by Ann Wilmer-Lasky
You
just know it’s going to fall; you just don’t know when.
We
may just yet survive the year 2020; I’m just not sure how we’re going to do it.
It’s
been a toxic year for so many reasons. It’s been hard not to get burned in one
way or another.
Fires
are raging both literally and figuratively. Besides the devastation of the
wildfires raging in the west and the Amazon, we have people raging out of
control across America. And then there’s the pandemic. Haven’t seen much
control over that lately, either.
In
the midst of all of this, we are trying to live and make a living. Both of
which are becoming more and more difficult to do as time goes by.
So
who has the wherewithal to sit and read? Or to even write? Some of us do, and
some of us must.
To
that end, “Global Warning” will be published in September. I wish I could say
it will take our minds off of “things” for awhile, but that’s not what it’s
designed to do.
It’s
actually designed to make us worry about one or two more things – the “Climate Crisis” we have been ignoring
since the pandemic hit, and just maybe the current acidic political climate.
While
we are ignoring the above, we are close to registering what may be the hottest
summer in history, with the hottest day (130 degrees F) ever recorded in Death
Valley, California. Epic storms are devastating our land with their winds and
their deluges. (If only we could put that water to good use, dousing the over
500 wildfires raging in California alone.)
And
then there’s the “Climate Crisis” among people. We can’t hug, we can’t shake
hands. We can’t even breathe on one another. We are, however, in the wake of
the lack of niceties, becoming far more hostile toward one another, unforgiving
and intolerant. This may be the most devastating crisis of all, and will surely
need to be overcome before we can accomplish other needed changes. At this
point one can only hope for the best – literally – as it seems we are not in
control of our own future. If we were, I would like to think that cooler, more
intelligent heads would prevail.
But
I digress from announcing the release of my latest Haiku collection. I plan on
announcing its release date on my weekly Twitter chat forum,
#CelebsForSmallBiz. We’re live on Fridays at 2:00 PM MDT. It’s in the late evening in the UK from
where it originates.
If
you can’t catch the chat, I’ll also post it on Facebook once it’s cast in
concrete (or relatively so). Look for it on Amazon around the 22nd
of September, maybe with the coming of Fall.
In
the meantime, please be well and please be as kind to the people and the
animals and the earth all around you as you possibly can. Kindness matters more
than ever now.
Until
next time, read and write to your heart’s content. My eclectic collection of
reading matter may take your mind off of things. Enjoy.
https://www.amazon.com/author/annwilmerlasky
As
always, I welcome your reactions and responses to any of my blogs. I love to
hear from my readers. Also, here are links to my Twitter and Facebook accounts,
if you care to share your thoughts with me there:
https://www.facebook.com/ann.wilmerlasky
Hopefully,
next month will find us all on the mend and on the upside of this thing, but that’s what I said last month, and it
didn’t happen. However, I am still hoping...
