April 1, 2017 at 10:48 am (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Books, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, Ireland, poetry, Saturday, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, warnings
A hard-bound book titled, simply, Annaghmakerrig. It has excerpts from work by past residents:
Photograph of Pat Donlon at Work in the Main House
The poem:
Black is the raven
Black is the rook
But, blacker the child
Who steals this book.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
August 29, 2014 at 1:50 pm (Weather)
Tags: environment, Fridays, politics, San Francisco Chronicle, warnings
From the San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 25, 2014:
California is pumping itself dry. As the drought deepens, desperate farmers are turning to groundwater, using the supply at nearly double the normal rate. It’s a short-sighted practice that needs thought and planning, not the open-tap treatment groundwater now gets.
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In ever-watchful California, groundwater is an oddity, unmetered and uncontrolled, with landowners free to pump without limit. This is the only state to take such a laissez-faire attitude, a vestige of the Gold Rush era.
As the drought heads into its third year, the policy is a disaster. Groundwater now accounts for 60 percent of the water usage, up from 40 percent. Well drillers are among the busiest workers in farm country, as agriculture pushes ever deeper to supplemental supplies.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
August 28, 2014 at 3:39 pm (Weather)
Tags: Smithsonian, summer, warnings
Seven-hundred dead in Chicago in 1995. Fifty-thousand across Europe in 2003. Eleven thousand in Russia in 2010. Heat waves have become hotter, longer and more frequent in recent decades, and scientists predict that climate change and the growth of cities — which trap heat — will boost body counts.
But what if we could see the heat coming ahead of time?
From “Red Alert”, by Ariel Sabar, Smithsonian Magazine, September 2014
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