September
2024 Blog
Raindrops,
Keep Falling: A Haiku
The gentle drops of
Rain upon my head comfort
Me with their coolness.
by Ann Wilmer-Lasky
(8/30/24)
I’m
not wet; I’m refreshed. For the first time in months, the day dawned cool,
gentle raindrops fell, and the temperature didn’t reach a hundred-plus
degrees.What a relief!
I will
soon be able to sit outside and write again. Something I have not been able to
do the last couple of summers.
As I
understand it, this summer will be the hottest on record, breaking the recor
made just last year. I sense a frightening trend here, and I see no worldwide
effort to do anything about it.
While
people are at war with one another worldwide and country-wide, the Earth is
heating up to a dangerous point – or has that point already been reached and no
one wants to tell us that we are truly doomed?
That
wouldn’t surprise me one bit. There’s so much that we aren’t told but find out
much later. Much later in this case woud probably to too late.
I
would love to see the next administration concentrate on coming up with a
worldwide plan to save the Earth from overheating to the point all life on
Earth becomes extinct. We have no place to go. Those Sci-Fi scenarios of rocket
ships to populate other planets made habitable by terra-forming just have not
come true yet. What is true is that we (the people) are heating up the planet
beyond its capacity to compensate and recover.
All of
us who are “crying in the wilderness” hope someone in some position of
authority will hear and comprehend. Maybe my “Global Warnig: Climate In Crisis”
will help a tiny bit. Maybe others will catch on, and there will be a ground
swell of people clamoring for change. I can dream, can’t I?
“Global
Warning: Climate in Crisis” available from Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KWQ6SHK/
A
$1.00 donation for each book sold will be made to an environmental cause.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #SaveOurPlanet
In the
meantime, I will continue to write what I feel and love and try dwelling in one
of the cool places in my fiction.
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 Amazon, Twitter and Facebook pages,
if you care to share your thoughts with me there or look for any publication
announcements.
amazon.com/author/annwilmerlasky
https://www.facebook.com/ann.wilmerlasky
It is
now September and it seems the 100+ days are behind us for the rest of the
year. It also means the year is two-thirds gone Only four months left to “get
‘er done”. I’m working on it.
And dream away!! You have been screaming about our climate problems for a very long time. Maybe soon someone will finally listen.
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